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Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)

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The Evolution of Racism

Women become more racist when they're ovulating, according to a new study. The research was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Tam: Why does evolutionary psychology get so far away from natural selection?Tam: It's not that we evolved every racist. But it doesn't make any evolutionary sense now because race would be a bit scary.

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