Episode 74 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the reason for menopause, why capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies, and the occurrence of jumping genes in humans.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Menopause)
00:20:58 Question 2 (Capuchin thieves)
00:29:38 Question 3 (Jumping Genes)
Episode 73 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how male risk-taking behaviors impact sex ratios, thyroid-related autoimmune diseases, and the TikTok twin telepathy challenge.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Male risk taking)
00:06:32 Question 2 (Thyroid function and diseases)
00:20:11 Question 3 (TikTok twin telepathy challenge)
Episode 72 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether the mother or father is more evolutionarily dominant, why bottom-up emergence matters, and how other primates respond to offspring bullying.
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00:00 Intro
00:23 Question 1 (Importance of mothers vs fathers)
00:12:04 Question 2 (Bottom-up Emergence)
00:23:08 Question 3 (Primate protective parenting)
Episode 71 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how our IQ’s are increasing, why that one song is stuck in your head, and whether we think or feel our way to decisions.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (IQ’s)
00:09:39 Question 2 (Earworms)
00:16:30 Question 3 (Thinking vs Feeling)
Episode 70 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include placebos, updates on Sapolsky’s lectures, and whether Israel is simply doing tit-for-tat.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Placebos)
15:03 Question 2 (Updated Lectures
16:01 Question 3 (Israel: tit-for-tat?)
Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.
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00:00: Intro
00:23: Question 1 (Penis Sizes)
00:15:36: Question 2 (Clothing as sexual modesty)
00:18:14: Question 3 (BDSM)
00:27:20: Question 4 (Missionary Position)
Episode 68 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses gestural expression, whether animals have political systems, and why others’ bodily secretions disgust us.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 Question 1 (Gestural expression)
09:48 Question 2 (Animal politics)
19:34 Question 3 (Bodily secretions)
Episode 67 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether night shift rotating is ideal, why we wince, and the hippocampal damage of PTSD.
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00:00: Intro
00:20: Question 1 (Night Shift rotating)
00:15:30: Question 2 (Wincing)
00:21:16: Question 3 (PTSD Hippocampal Atrophy)
Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.
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00:00: Intro
00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)
17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)
30:56: Question 3 (Suicide prediction)
Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.
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00:00: Intro
00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)
00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormone addiction)
00:25:28: Question 3 (Metaphorical diets)
Episode 64 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the brain fog experienced during chemotherapy, the effects of Botox on emotion, and how many calories chess players burn.
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Episode 63 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the loss of smell in COVID-19, the 1983 Libet study, and the relative standing of current inequality.
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00:00: Intro
00:15: Question 1 (COVID and smell)
10:22: Question 2 (Libet et al.)
28:28: Question 3 (Inequality — better or worse?)
Episode 62 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the function of language brain regions in other apes and monkeys, the “developmental origin of health and disease” and the Dutch Hunger Winter, and how this applies to Palestine.
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0:00: Intro
0:15: Question 1 (Monkey and ape language brains)
13:28: Question 2 (Dutch Hunger Winter)
25:44: Question 3 (Applicability to Palestine)
Episode 61 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses de-extinction, parasocial relationships and Jennifer Aniston Neurons, and whether autism is genetically or environmentally caused (by vaccines).
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0:00: Intro
0:15: Question 1 (De-extinction)
09:06: Question 2 (Parasocial Relationships)
26:11: Question 3 (ASD: Genes or environment)
Episode 60 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Tourette Syndrome, whether free will and God are mutually exclusive, and the timeline of human sexual maturation.
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0:00: Intro
0:23: Question 1 (Tourette Syndrome)
21:07: Question 2 (Free Will vs God)
25:44: Question 3 (Human Sexual Maturation)
Episode 59 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses wiring of different languages, whether the Professor and Offspring pass the Marshmallow Test, and addictive qualities of non-suicidal self-injury.
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0:00: Intro
0:20: Question 1 (First and second language wiring)
13:40:23: Question 2 (The Marshmallow Test)
22:04:00: Question 3 (Non-suicidal self-injury)
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Episode 58 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the condition misophonia, what the “cute aggression” urge stems from, and whether female orgasms have a purpose.
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0:00: Intro
1:37: Question 1 (Misophonia)
12:09: Question 2 (Cute Aggression)
22:43: Question 3 (Female Orgasms)
Episode 57 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include dopamine’s role in introversion/extroversion, drugs that create real-life zombies, and the religiosity of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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0:00: Intro
0:33: Question 1 (Introversion/Extroversion and dopamine)
11:07:03: Question 2 (Real-life zombie drugs)
26:04: Question 3 (Religiosity of AA)
Episode 56 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses Ozempic and the potential for addiction treatment, and the historical and evolutionary presence of inbreeding.
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0:00: Intro
0:26: Question 1 (Ozempic and addiction treatment)
19:11:09: Question 2 (Inbreeding)
Episode 55 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include brain changes during pregnancy, Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the roots of circumcision.
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0:00: Intro
0:18: Question 1 (Pregnancy Brain changes)
12:40: Question 2 (Stanford Prison Experiment)
26:30: Question 3 (Circumcision)
