Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-04-03
Books mentioned on #1099 - Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan, Ph.D.
Joe Rogan recommended Coyote America by Dan Flores, and discussed Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and others and The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others. Christopher Ryan discussed Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha is a popular book that challenges conventional assumptions about human sexuality and monogamy.
Discussed“I told you in an email that I felt bad when your book came up on the show and I didn't know how to defend it I didn't know what to do because I didn't I was in that weird moment where I was recommending it because I liked it because I think it's a great book and he was”
Where to get it
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Discussed“so they're charles murray wrote this book called the bell curve I don't know 20 years ago or something 25 even yeah where he argued that there are racial differences in intelligence IQ specifically with Asians being the highest and then whites and then blacks”
Where to get it
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Cultural Materialism
Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris is an anthropological study that examines how infrastructural conditions, including technology and environmental constraints, shape the development of human culture and social institutions.
Discussed“it's also interesting to look at how the culture reflects the environment yes right Marvin Harris wrote about this cultural materialism how how a culture responds to an environment”
Where to get it
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Coyote America
Coyote America by Dan Flores is a comprehensive history of the North American coyote that explores the animal's remarkable resilience and expansion across the continent in the face of relentless eradication campaigns.
Recommended“dan Flores is a fascinating guy he wrote a book a great book on coyotes called coyote America”
Where to get it
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown is a deeply influential historical book that chronicles the systematic displacement, broken treaties, and forced assimilation of Native American tribes in the American West through the perspective of the indigenous peoples.
Discussed“they were ready bury my heart at Wounded Knee no I don't think I did that's a beautiful book it's a really interesting book about the sort of final chapter of different tribes in North America”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“it's one of its it covers a lot of the same ground that I cover in civilized to death actually I quote him in civilized to death”
“you ever read call of the wild Jack London yeah”
“and his first books called the natural mind that he wrote the marriage of the Sun and the moon”
“and his first books called the natural mind that he wrote the marriage of the Sun and the moon”
“then a book called from chocolate to morphine these are all like stretch”
“tangentially reading it's out now anybody can get it everywhere”