📚 6 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1201 - William von Hippel" of The Joe Rogan Experience

so I don't know if you saw this book that Plomin just wrote called blueprint Robert Plomin he's a behavioural geneticist I haven't seen that oh it's a lovely book just came out and just out like really yeah like a month or two at the most PLO mi and Robert Plomin and he's a wonderful behavior of geneticist over in the UK and this book blueprint talks about the role of genes and all this and he he basically is one of these people who's been in the field almost since it got started and and what they kept thinking is that the environment was gonna play a huge role the parents were gonna play a huge role but of course what they keep finding over and over again there he goes how Danny makes us who we are and and what they find over and over again

Joe mentions the recent book 'Blueprint' by Robert Plomin and describes its focus on the role of genetics in shaping who we are.

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Now you write about this book Catching Fire Richard Wrangham argued that what enabled that so if you look at the gut of a gorilla or a chimpanzee in their brain they got a lot of gut for a little bit of brain because it takes a lot of digestion to keep a little bit of brain going we have a tiny gut for a huge brain And Wrangham argues and I think quite rightly that the only way you can achieve that is by releasing more nutrients from your food And the only way you can release more nutrients from your food is by cooking it

Joe mentions the book 'Catching Fire' by Richard Wrangham, and the guest discusses its hypothesis about the role of cooking in human evolution.

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and that's of course the point of Pinker's newest book enlightenment now know things are going freaking great turn it anarchy and all those things are really bad ideas voting for somebody like trumps a really bad idea because things are actually running along really nicely it's just that we tend to forget it because every advocacy group who's all worried about whatever their particular issue is doesn't want the word to get out that things are a lot better than they used to be

The guest mentions Steven Pinker's newest book 'Enlightenment Now' and its argument about the progress of humanity.

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so have you ever read sex at dawn mmm-hmm What did you think of that um no offense but I think it's total crap Chris Ryan Do you hear that [ __ ] Everybody's rocking on your book bro What did you think is crap about it I haven't read that book now since it came out

Joe asks the guest if he has read 'Sex at Dawn' and prompts a discussion about its thesis and the guest's strong disagreement with it. The author Chris Ryan is mentioned.

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and I actually I think Pinker's got the best answer to this question which is basically well what structures do you need to put in place to make the world a safer and less violent place and and I don't know if you've talked to him about his book better angels of our nature I know you've talked to him about more recent ones but yes better angels is a great example It's a great book It's a great example of how we become less and less violent and even over our lifetimes and and part of that is undoubtedly better governance structure and all that

The guest mentions Steven Pinker and his book 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' in the context of discussing the decline of violence.

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um the social leap yes what's the social leap I'll tell you all about it please do okay so um the story that I want to tell is basically how we got here how we became human and so that story begins about six or seven million years ago when our ancestors left the rain forest and so the question is why would they leave and how would they survive once they left and and that's what the social leap is

The guest introduces his book and explains its central theme about human evolution.

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