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State of Affairs | Dr. Brooke Scelza

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Many of your decisions are aimed at keeping you alive and helping you reproduce. Today we'll be focusing on an indigenous people known as the Himba that have romantic practices quite different from most of us listening in the West. Dr. Brooke Shelsa is a professor at UCLA who studies humans as a behavioral ecologist. Her research angle is subtly different from the ebside perspective I've grown used to, but it's been a powerful and fruitful approach for her.

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