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Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof · science · EN · 67 episodes
Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. Every week, Dave and David bring cutting-edge work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences to you. patreon.com/epthepod
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Signup to Generate a PitchActual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. Every week, Dave and David bring cutting-edge work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences to you.
Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) is hosted by Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof. The show has published 67 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ecology and Social Connections with Kathrine Starkweather" (13 October 2026, 85 minutes), "The Extended, Cooperative Phenotype with Athena Aktipis" (6 October 2026, 88 minutes), and "Moral Progress with Hanno Sauer" (29 September 2026, 99 minutes).
Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 91 minutes across 67 episodes.
Booking probability for Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)'s contact route on record: public web form.
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Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof hosts Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast), a science show with 67 episodes published.
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Episode #74
How do we remain resilient and flexible under difficult conditions? In this episode, we talk to Katie Starkweather (UCSB) about her work with the Shodagor, who spend appreciable amounts of life living on small boats in...
Episode #73
They say that if you do what you love you never have to work a day in your life. In this episode, polymath Athena Aktipis (ASU) shares her enthusiasm and love for all things cooperative. Topics include music, Zombies...
Episode #72
Philosopher of Ethics and Politics Hanno Sauer (Utrecht) examines whether moral progress is all its cracked up to be. Topics include social class, being slightly more moral than others, rationalization costs, the...
Episode #71
This week, we talk about ice-age megafauna, Shamansim, magic, and the scale of ancestral cooperation with Manvir Singh (UC Davis). More about Manvir: https://www.manvir.org/...
Episode #70
We're Back! This week, we (well, David) talks with Antoine Marie (Paris) about all things politics. More about Antoine: https://www.antoinemariesci.com/ https://www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/en/directory/marie-antoine/...
Episode #69
We will be on a well-deserved summer break for the next four weeks; returning on August 18th with a slew of fresh, new episodes. Thank you all for listening!
Episode #68
Sit back and relax as we tell you a story about....well....stories. In this episode, we talk with Michelle Sugiyama (U Oregon), who explores human nature through the lens of understanding how, when, and why we decide to...
Episode #67
What is a mechanism? Are claims about function doomed to fail? And why are explanations in psychology and human behavior so fraught and contested? We pose these and other mysteries to one the shining stars in modern...
Episode #66
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...
Episode #65
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...
Episode #64
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...
Episode #63
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...
Episode #62
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...
Episode #61
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)...
Episode #60
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...
Episode #59
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...
Episode #58
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...
Episode #56
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...
Episode #54
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...
Episode #55
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...
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