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#432 - Geoffrey Miller - An Evolutionary Psychologist's Dating Advice

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Is There a Parallel Between Evolution and Sexual Selection?

Both sexes, men and women, both evolved to do the best they can given reproductive incentives that they faced. Neither sex is like the norm that you have to compare the other sex to. So i think one crucial kind of emotional insight from an evolutionary perspective is just to accept men and women and their natures as they are. And then figure out, ok, giveen that plots like modern culture and technology, how do you do the best you can? If i don't, now i think a lot, i know that your begin to existential risk,. which is my other pet obsession, an em that it really does feel like focking being on the cusp of something absolutely terrible and

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