After Skool Sex & Gender: An Evolutionary Perspective - Heather Heying | After Skool
Sep 17, 2025
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Sex & Gender: An Evolutionary Perspective - Heather Heying
Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist, professor, author and podcastor. With her husband, Bret Weinstein, she authored the New York Time's Best Selling book, "A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century", which provides an evolutionary toolkit for living a good and honorable life as an ape in the 21st century. This animation is an adaptation from one of the chapters in that book.
For 15 years, Heather was a professor at The Evergreen State College, where she provided undergraduates a curriculum that prioritized the scientific method, and pushed students outside of their own certainty and comfort zones, in part through exploring remote sites in the neotropics.
That ended in 2017 when she and her husband, Bret Weinstein resigned in the wake of violent protests on campus. Since then they has been educating outside of the classroom, in invited talks, in written work, and especially, in their weekly livestreamed episodes of the DarkHorse podcast.
Heather also has a substack where you can access more of her writing and ideas https://naturalselections.substack.com/
Learn more at https://www.heatherheying.com/
Dark Horse Podcast clips - https://www.youtube.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips
0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Evolution of Gender Roles
6:14 - Deep History of Sex
13:12 - $3X Changes & $3X Roles in Animals
21:42 - Division of Labor
26:20 - What might we learn?
27:30 - Reproductive Strategies
34:50 - Failure of Reductionism: P04N
38:48 - The Corrective Lens
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For 15 years, Heather was a professor at The Evergreen State College, where she provided undergraduates a curriculum that prioritized the scientific method, and pushed students outside of their own certainty and comfort zones, in part through exploring remote sites in the neotropics.
That ended in 2017 when she and her husband, Bret Weinstein resigned in the wake of violent protests on campus. Since then they has been educating outside of the classroom, in invited talks, in written work, and especially, in their weekly livestreamed episodes of the DarkHorse podcast.
Heather also has a substack where you can access more of her writing and ideas https://naturalselections.substack.com/
Learn more at https://www.heatherheying.com/
Dark Horse Podcast clips - https://www.youtube.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips
0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Evolution of Gender Roles
6:14 - Deep History of Sex
13:12 - $3X Changes & $3X Roles in Animals
21:42 - Division of Labor
26:20 - What might we learn?
27:30 - Reproductive Strategies
34:50 - Failure of Reductionism: P04N
38:48 - The Corrective Lens
Thank you for watching.
Please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool
Visit our site at https://www.afterskool.net/
Check out the new After Skool prints! https://after-skool.creator-spring.com/
Or send us an email at afterskool100@gmail.com Follow the podcast for new episodes. We cannot change the world. But we can change ourselves...and that will change the world. The goal of this podcast is to empower the individual and deliver profound ideas through art. Find After Skool on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AfterSkool/videos Disclaimer: This podcast is an independent initiative inspired by the thought-provoking content of After Skool. It is created by a viewer who appreciates the depth of the ideas shared and wants to make them more accessible in an audio format. While every effort is made to preserve the essence of the original content, this is not an official After Skool production, nor is it affiliated with or endorsed by After Skool. All rights to the original material belong to After Skool. If you have any concerns regarding this podcast, please feel free to reach out.
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