Living With a Stone Age Brain
from Ask A Biologist Podcast Hosted by Dr. Biology Talks with authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick
Even though we live in a modern world how we act and what we do many times is controlled by our Stone Age brain. This impacts our diet, friendships, love and more. Dr. Biology sits down with authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick to get the inside story on their book - Solving Modern Problems with a Stone Age, Brain, Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives. This lively conversation can help you wrap your Stone Age brain around the challenges we face today and give you some solutions as you navigate our modern world. Get the book: Solving Modern Problems with a Stone Age Brain Try out: Zombified Podcast If you have not already, please subscribe to the podcast so you can be notified about new episodes.
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- 0:00 Introduction
- 2:35 Stone Age Background
- 3:41 Seven Fundamental Motives
- 4:01 Where did the seven motives come from?
- 5:17 Ancestor checklist.
- 7:13 Evolutionary mismatch.
- 7:56 Diet and the Stone Age brain.
- 8:00 What would you be if you could not be a scientist? [Doug]
- 11:24 Make yourself work for those calories.
- 12:45 Finding and keeping love.
- 13:34 Parasitism and love.
- 15:38 Gamification of love.
- 16:51 Are there any matched motives today?
- 22:01 The science behind the book.
- 25:06 Positive psychology.
- 28:34 Three questions.
- 28:41 When did you know you wanted to be a scientist? [Doug]
- 29:46 When did you first know you wanted to be scientist? [David]
- 31:08 Movies and books and the seven motives.
- 33:30 What would you be if you could not be a scientist? [David]
- 35:25 What advice do you have for future scientists? [Doug]
- 37:20 What advice do you have for a future scientist? [David]
- 38:52 What's is the Zombified Podcast?
- 40:05 Sign-off
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