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

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/

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