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235. Evolution, Sex & Desire | David Buss

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Evolution of Human Nature

There was not a lot of evolutionary thinking there, because underlying that behavior est ethos was the idea that human beings were something like a blank slate. And so if humans don't have pretty interesting and complex psychological adaptations for mating, then we're kinded out of business. So as a psychologist trained in an empirical tradition, you have to test these things. And what i realize is that there were almost no empirical tests of these evolutionary hypotheses when i started.

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