Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-02-07
Chris Williamson & Geoffrey Miller: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #432
An Evolutionary Psychologist's Dating Advice - Geoffrey Miller - #432
Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist, Associate Professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico and an author. Geoffrey has been writing about sexual selection and dating dynamics for over 30 years.
Chris Williamson recommended Mate by Tucker Max and others, and discussed The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller and The Precipice by Toby Ord. Geoffrey Miller recommended The evolution of human sexuality by Donald Symons, The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams, and DOOMSDAY MACHINE by ELLSBERG DANIEL, and discussed The Moral Animal by Robert Wright.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
-
The Mating Mind
Discussed“is it right to say that you're one of the ogs of applying evolutionary psychology to sexual dynamics do you think your the mating mind book is 22 years old now”
Where to get it
-
The evolution of human sexuality
Recommended“and then you had people like anthropologist don simons who wrote this amazing book the evolution of human sexuality in 1979 and that had a big impact on my little field evolutionary psychology”
Where to get it
-
The Ape that Understood the Universe
Recommended“i do think there's a little bit of a like a dark valley that you go through that's basically like you know maybe you read the moral animal and you read some david bostoff and some steve pinker stuff and you read yeah the the the apes that understood the universe by steve stewart williams great book”
Where to get it
-
Mate
Recommended“the thing that surprised me when i was watching reading mate your book which is [ __ ] dope by the way if there are guys out there that want to kind of learn the principles of evolutionary psychology for mating and i think that women should read that book as well”
Where to get it
-
The Precipice
Discussed“man there was a brief period after i read the precipice twice back to back and i was already familiar with x-risks a lot but that that book just really really drove it home and it was it was like an existential crisis from an existential risk book”
Where to get it
-
DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Recommended“and i have exactly the same reaction like everybody watching this should go read toby awards to precipice they should also read daniel ellsberg's book uh the doomsday machine about the risk of nuclear war throughout the 20th century”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Mating Mind
“and then finally the mating mind book came out in the year 2000”
Plugged The Preacher
“well when tucker max and i wrote that mate book we we put a lot of emphasis on just overall competence like what is attractive about a guy uh to a woman”
Plugged Mate
“primalpoly.com is my website um and probably the best books if you're interested in reading something i've written as uh the mating mind or spent or mate or virtue signaling”
Plugged The Mating Mind
“primalpoly.com is my website um and probably the best books if you're interested in reading something i've written as uh the mating mind or spent or mate or virtue signaling”
Plugged Spent
“primalpoly.com is my website um and probably the best books if you're interested in reading something i've written as uh the mating mind or spent or mate or virtue signaling”
Plugged Virtue Signaling
“primalpoly.com is my website um and probably the best books if you're interested in reading something i've written as uh the mating mind or spent or mate or virtue signaling”