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DarkHorse Podcast

Monsters, Spotted: The 229th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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In this 229th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this week’s episode, we discuss empathy, sympathy, and theory of mind; corporate personhood, psychopathic behavior, and the limitations of humans; kin selection, and reciprocity, both direct and indirect. Then: utopias, and why they fail, from the hero of Er in Plato’s Republic to the Singularity. And we discuss the h...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream 200 and some odd.

0:09.3

It is odd.

0:10.5

It's even Prime.

0:11.5

Wow. 229 is a prime. Okay. Good. I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr Heather Hying

0:19.2

No Q&A today because we have a plan to catch but we are ready to I have no idea we're

0:31.2

ready to do what it is that we do, which is to engage complex issues and try to make them intuitive and straightforward.

0:39.3

Hi all, today we're going to be talking about hypothesis and apparently conspiracy according

0:47.2

to what I see on bread screen and utopias and human nature and story and the 21st anniversary, the 15th anniversary of the 21st anniversary

0:58.7

of the discovery of the double helix and what nature the magazine, the sign of a journal, has to say about that.

1:05.1

Do that again?

1:06.1

The what anniversary of the what?

1:08.1

So, nature, and I think science does this too, although I don't remember at the moment.

1:13.0

In every issue has a like a throwback, and they say,

1:16.4

hey, we're going to go and look at what happened 50 years ago,

1:19.4

100 years ago.

1:20.8

And for a while now, I've wanted to talk about something that Darwin said about primroses a long time ago.

1:27.0

We're still not going to do that today, but I went looking at that link today and I find nature going back to 1974, which is 50 years ago, in a special issue dedicated

1:40.0

to the 21st anniversary of the discovery of the double helix. So it's 21 plus 50. Yeah. Makes sense. Oh. Did you think I had a buy in there? You think it? Yeah. I thought there was a multiplier in there which was going to put it way into

1:57.9

deep past so many years ago double helix But yeah, so we're going to do a little bit of all of that today and we encourage you to join us on

2:09.2

locals, so there's a watch party going on now and without any further ado we will start do we

2:16.2

have any further ado I don't think there was any ado to begin with now so

2:19.3

no ado no ado whatsoever with no ado whatsoever we are going to begin with as usual our three sponsors right at the top of the hour.

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