Hello and welcome to trigonometry I'm Francis Foster I'm Constantine

Kishin and this is the show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the

internet over subjects they know nothing about at trigonometry we don't

pretend to be the experts. We ask the experts.

Our amazing expert guest this week is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of

Portsmouth, Dr. Dan and Flashman, welcome to Trigonometry.

Hello.

Thank you so much for coming on.

For anyone who doesn't know what an evolutionary psychologist is,

could you just tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do?

Sure.

So evolutionary psychology looks at the. little bit about who you are and what you do. Sure.

So evolutionary psychology looks at the human mind in a similar way that you would look at any other

kind of adaptations in perhaps physiology, right?

So birds have wings and those wings are especially

designed to fly at certain speeds and to catch certain kinds of prey. And in the

same way the human mind has certain adaptations that have evolved to help us survive and reproduce.

And so for example, I study discussed a lot and discussed has got evolutionary history that's

kind of human specific and the idea there is that disgust

evolved to distance us away from things that could potentially contaminate us

both toxins and disease and so there's a reason why things are disgusting and it's an adaptation to help us survive and reproduce for example

Isn't it true that women feel disgust more than men? It's very true. Yeah, women are more disgust sensitive than men overall

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