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Producing Belief with Pascal Boyer
Jun 23, 2026
1h 50m 56s
Health and the Shuar Project with Josh Snodgrass
Jun 16, 2026
1h 29m 43s
Cooperation in the field with Kris Smith
Jun 9, 2026
1h 35m 47s
Pathogens with Josh Ackerman
Jun 2, 2026
1h 47m 23s
Design with Dave & David
May 26, 2026
45m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Producing Belief with Pascal Boyer | Pascal Boyer (St. Louis) is one of the greats! We talk about his shifting thinking in terms of belief selection to belief production, and why this is a subversive idea. Other topics include birthdays, shamanism and magic, and why we should remain optimistic about the future of science. More about Pascal Boyer:http://www.pascalboyer.net/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7OaZg10AAAAJ&hl=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Boyer | 1h 50m 56s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Health and the Shuar Project with Josh Snodgrass | Is leaving a hunter horticultural lifestyle for a more westernized, market economy good or bad for one's health? And what does it take to run a field site? In this episode we talk to Josh Snodgrass (Oregon), one of the co-directors of the Shuar Project, and an expert on the consequences of transitioning from a more traditional to market subsistence on one's existence and health. Turns out: it's complicated! More about Josh Snodgrass: https://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EADPtvQAAAAJ&hl=en https://cas.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/jjosh | 1h 29m 43s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Cooperation in the field with Kris Smith | Do we choose how we choose others? Kris Smith gives us a tour of his fieldwork in across Tanzania, from the arid plains of Hadza Land to the shores of village fisheries, Kris explains what he's learned about understand partner choice, levels of cooperation, and how the local way of making a living. Kris also explains what mistakes new students often make in the field, the effects of social mobility, the difficulties of abstract measures across cultures, and how not to avoid mosquitos in the field. More about Kris Smith: https://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty/wsu-profile/kristopher.m.smith/ https://www.kristophermsmith.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AXOcqSIAAAAJ&hl=en | 1h 35m 47s | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Pathogens with Josh Ackerman | How does our evolved psychology deal with pathogens? Can other people tell when you're sick? What's the relationship between worrying about sickness and your social network? Do you stay in or go out when you're sick? Love 'em or hate 'em, pathogens are a part of life and an extreme selection pressure, and our guest Josh Ackerman (UMichigan) gives us the in's and out's of how our minds deal with and are dealt with by this tiny microscopic critters. More about Josh Ackerman: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/joshack.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w3nbv6UAAAAJ&hl=en | 1h 47m 23s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Design with Dave & David | We are all still recovering from the HBES conference in Morocco. So, in this half-length episode the David's discuss a listener comment about whether natural selection "designs" anything, and whether it is a mistake to talk and think in that way. We also hear from previous guest Greg Bryant in a mini-interview from HBES. Have a great week! | 45m 48s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | ![]() CES & HBES 2026 mini-episode | This week features a special mini-episode, fresh off the presses from our trip to the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) conference in Rabat, Morocco. We (briefly) talk with Bret Beheim (Max Planck Leipzig), Cristina Moya (UC Davis), and Brian Wood (UCLA). Also, this episode marks one year of the podcast! More about Brian Wood: https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/brian-wood/ http://brianwoodresearch.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oRH6SiEAAAAJ&hl=en | 14m 54s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Evolutionary Social Psychology with Steve Neuberg | Steve Neuberg (ASU) takes us on a professional and personal journey, explaining what it means to straddle two different sub-disciplines with grace, tact, and not a little bit of success. Topics include: the specificity of discrimination and stereotyping, the difference between going phenomenon vs. adaptive problem first in one's approach, why it's useful to give the benefit of the doubt, and what Steve's newest venture is. A fun, thoughtful, and wide-ranging conversation. More about Steve: https://psychology.asu.edu/research/labs/evolution-ecology-social-behavior https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=98Zaz2MAAAAJ&hl=en https://search.asu.edu/profile/11074 | 2h 03m 03s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | ![]() The Yanamamo and Nap Chagnon with Ray Hames | Ray Hames, along with guest-host Zach Garfield, discusses his time with the Yanamamo, being a student of Napoleon Chagnon, and what it was like to be in the early, 2nd generation of anthropologists applying evolution to human behavior. Topics include hunting, the history of sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology, attitudes about indigenous populations, the elderly, sexual orientation, and the darkness in Eldorado hoax. More about Ray Hames: https://rhames.unl.edu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BZ98oywAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/raymond-b-hames-srcedw/ | 1h 42m 44s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Sex and Gender with Dan Conroy-Beam | What is sex? What is gender? These are big, weighty questions with not a few societal and political tensions involved. Who better to guide us through this morass than Dan Conroy-Beam (UCSB)? Get ready for a clear-minded, derived-from-first-principles tour of the evolution of sex, sex roles, and gender. Other topics include the culture vs. biology distinction, mentors, friends, what agent based modeling is, and why it's not self-indulgent to model the evolution of sex. More about Dan Conroy-Beam: https://www.danconroybeam.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ifQUQssAAAAJ&hl=en https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/daniel-conroy-beam | 2h 06m 22s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Revenge and Forgiveness with Mike McCullough | Revenge, forgiveness, morality. Join us and our guest Mike McCullough (UC San Diego) as we navigate the deep cost/benefit structure of the social world. Topics include what punishment really is, why we should respect revenge, why victims may sometimes not seek help, and why times heals all wounds. More about Mike McCullough: https://www.michael-mccullough.com/ https://psychology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/mmccullough.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZyAttkAAAAAJ&hl=en | 1h 52m 25s | ||||||
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() Causality with Tadeg Quillien | Causality is....well...causality...it's hard to explain. And that's exactly what Tadeg Quillien (Edinburgh) does: figure out what the heck causality is, and how our mind does it. Other topics include domain generality vs. specificity, counterfactuals, relevance, morality, beliefs and theory of mind, and what it means to be computational, and how David Hume was pretty cool. More about Tadeg Quillien: https://quillienlab.github.io/people/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7h0VM_kAAAAJ&hl=fr | 2h 07m 17s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Founding Evolutionary Psychology with Leda Cosmides | A guest who needs no introduction. Leda Cosmides (UCSB) talks about how she and John Tooby co-founded the enterprise "evolutionary psychology"---including the how's, when's and why's---and what she thinks about current work. Other topics include why it's good for science to not be a jerk, and how she's come to understand what the heck behavioral and experimental economists are up to. More about Leda Cosmides:https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/leda-cosmides https://www.cep.ucsb.edu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V1vCfTYAAAAJ&hl=en | 2h 03m 51s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | ![]() The Origins of evolutionary psychology with Martin Daly | Along with Margo Wilson, Martin Daly (McMaster) is one the founding pioneers of evolutionary psychology. In this episode, we get Martin's take on the history and the field. Topics include studying real-world phenomena (like homicide), inequality, and how evolutionary biologists like Williams and Hamilton supported the upstart approach (and whether it's really a different approach at all), and what happens when you give a lab-reared rat the kind of plant that it evolved to eat out in the wild, but has never seen before. More about Martin Daly:https://www.martindaly.ca/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Daly_(professor) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1BUIq-UAAAAJ | 2h 00m 21s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Music and Acoustics with Greg Bryant | What's up with music? Why do vibrating strings tug on our emotions? And why can't most animals keep a beat? In this episode, we talk to Greg Bryant (UCLA) all about things acoustic and musical. Other topics include: the evolutionary logic of distortion in rock, laughter (including in rats!), and the psychology of perfect pitch and jamming. More about Greg Bryant: https://gabryant.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=urz-QfkAAAAJ&hl=en Greg's music: /gbryant.bandzoogle.com/home https://gbryant.bandcamp.com/album/soft-assembly-of-a-die-hard | 1h 58m 10s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Stress with Jen Byrd-Craven | What is stress? Is it useful? What is the endocrine system? Why do we need it (and why isn't a brain enough)? In this episode, we talk to Jen Byrd-Craven (Oklahoma State) about all things stress and endocrine. Other topics include development, supposedly "over-active" stress responses, rage-bait, chilling out, obesity, parenting, status, teaching history, and much more. More about Jen Byrd-Craven: https://byrd-cravenpsychobiologylab.mystrikingly.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MYyZEL4AAAAJ&hl=en | 1h 32m 39s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Cultural Evolution with Rob Boyd | Along with Pete Richerson, Rob Boyd (ASU) is one of *the* founders of cultural evolution, and one of the key figures in connecting human behavior with evolution. A very special episode with one of the greats! To top it off, we have Rob's former PhD student (and previous guest) Cristina Moya, in the role of guest host. More about Rob Boyd: https://www.robboyd.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyd_(anthropologist) https://search.asu.edu/profile/1952328 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YucHqSsAAAAJ&hl=en | 2h 11m 52s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Microchimerism with Amy Boddy | Are we one, or do we contain multitudes? In this episode, we explore the bizarre and fascinating world of microchimerism with Amy Boddy (UCSB). More about Amy Boddy: https://www.anth.ucsb.edu/people/amy-boddy https://boddylab.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jnNIBc4AAAAJ&hl=en | 1h 54m 29s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Status and Personality with Patrick Durkee | What is status? What is inspiration? What is personality? It all sounds simple and obvious, but in this episode with Patrick Durkee (CSU Fresno), we make "the familiar strange" and think through how an evolved mind may figure out how to invest our time and energy, what inspiration means, and what personality really is. More about Patrick Durkee: https://www.pdurkee.com/ https://csm.fresnostate.edu/about/directory/psych/durkee-patrick.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uj4K4rQAAAAJ&hl=en | 2h 19m 43s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() The Microbiome with Katrine Whiteson | In this episode, we talk with Katrine Whiteson (UC Irvine) about her amazing work studying the human microbiome. We cannot stress enough how much we learned from this episode, from how to prevent your gut bacteria from becoming trashed by antibiotics, how to shop for food that will feed your healthy microbes and prevent blood sugar spikes. Other topics include: what's missing form our modern gut bacteria, the relationship between eating, cancer, and immune function, hunting for phages, and much more. A great example of using evolution to better understand our health. More about Katrine Whiteson:https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6103https://kwhiteson.bio.uci.edu/ | 1h 56m 44s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Views of Mind with Clark Barrett | In this episode, we talk to Clark Barrett (UCLA) about all the ways we understand the mind, and all the ways that that understanding may be weirder and wider that our intellectual inheritance would have it. Topics include: lies, hunting magic, predicting the future, spirituality, dreams, Freud, fish with two jaws, embodiment, art, physical intelligence, not discounting other views of the mind, Konrad Lorenz, and the music of the Shuar. http://www.hclarkbarrett.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vIovbyUAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.geographyofphilosophy.com/ | 2h 19m 34s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() The Behavioral Immune System with Josh Tybur | It stinks to be sick. Our guest, Josh Tybur (VU Amsterdam), is the one of the foremost experts on how our brain--or better yet, our "behavioral immune system"--helps us avoid pathogens while still navigating the necessities of social and physical life: eating, hugging, parenting, mating, and so on. Topics include whether pathogen avoidance actually drives attitudes towards social outgroups, how disgust, sex, and morality all interact (including David's pet theory of kinky sexual practices), and whether evolutionary mismatch is over-used and under-specified (or not). Oh, that whole world-wide pandemic thing. More about Josh Tybur: https://www.joshtybur.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ash8oRMAAAAJ&hl=en | 2h 17m 58s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Selection with Paul Smaldino | Intentions be damned! Whats matter is selection! In this episode, Paul Smaldino (UC Merced) takes us on a tour of his work on social signals, social identities, the perverse incentives of science, the stupidity and yet usefulness of models, and so much else. (Paul also shows us his small model of the solar system in the background). More about Paul Smaldino: https://smaldino.com/wp/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AwHfbP0AAAAJ&hl=en https://smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/album/dad-songs | 2h 04m 12s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Consciousness with Michael Graziano | Consciousness: is it really that hard of a problem? In this episode, we talk to our favorite mechanistically-minded (and possibly clearest) thinker about consciousness we've had the pleasure to stumble across, Michael Graziano (Princeton). Topics include why consciousness has been so hard to study, what it is, and what future (evolutionary) work on consciousness would look like. More about Michael Graziano:https://grazianolab.princeton.edu/ https://pni.princeton.edu/people/michael-graziano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Graziano https://www.press53.com/michael-s-a-graziano https://www.amazon.com/stores/B.-B.-Wurge/author/B001JS4X0U? | 2h 09m 15s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | ![]() Peace with Luke Glowacki | The evolution of war has occupied science. But what about the evolution of peace? In this episode, we talk to Luke Glowacki about his framing of peace as requiring just as much, if not more, explanation, than the evolution of war, and how it comes about via cultural technology interacting with our evolved psychology. Other topics include the distribution of conflict, the Omo valley research project, and how to think about our own species through the lens of other species--including mongeese (mongooses?) More about Luke Glowacki: https://www.hsb-lab.org/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DaCQ-UIAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.bu.edu/anthrop/profile/luke-glowacki/ | 1h 53m 14s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | ![]() Free Will with David Pietraszewski | Free will: Do we really have it? And what is it, exactly? In this episode, co-host David Pietraszewski takes the role of guest and explains his recent evolutionary, adaptationist approach to the problem of free will, explaining what people are talking about when they talk about free will, why different people have different opinions about whether it really exists in light of science, and what an evolutionary approach has to say about how to study it in the first place. If you love or hate the study of free will--or think it is a forever-unsolvable mystery-- then this episode is for you! More about David Pietraszewski: https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rGFYm8AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao | 2h 02m 48s | ||||||
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34 placements across 29 markets.
Chart Positions
34 placements across 29 markets.
