209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
The Michael Shermer Show
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Avoid Sex Without Commitment
Men have effectively two mind sets with respect to sex, both of them evolutionary adaptations in human beings. Offspring are so labor intensive to raise well that pairs that agree to raise offspring together out compete individuals who attempt to raise offspring alone. And then men have an additional way of reproducing that involves a impregnating somebody leaving. But we're left with these two arether strategies, which, historically, both have been available to men, and only one has been available to women. In order to be liberated, what men need to be able to do is to act like men at their worst,. We need to also be able to access the short term reproductive strategy that men haveHistorically had
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