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EPISODE · May 5, 2026 · 1H 42M

The Yanamamo and Nap Chagnon with Ray Hames

from Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · host Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof

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/  

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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...

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