Episodes
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A short introduction to this album.
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Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.
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Missing episodes?
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What happens when you apply Darwin to human social structures? Ruth Mace explains the value of this approach.
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Transcript -- What happens when you apply Darwin to human social structures? Ruth Mace explains the value of this approach.
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The comparative method can be used to investigate how culture relates to environment. The reproductive pattern of human females is a particularly interesting puzzle for evolutionary biologists.
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Transcript -- The comparative method can be used to investigate how culture relates to environment. The reproductive pattern of human females is a particularly interesting puzzle for evolutionary biologists.
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The current decline in family size seems to contradict the Darwinian model of inclusive fitness but it can be explained as a tradeoff between the cost of bringing up children and the number of children in a family.
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Transcript -- The current decline in family size seems to contradict the Darwinian model of inclusive fitness but it can be explained as a tradeoff between the cost of bringing up children and the number of children in a family.
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Does technology lead behaviour or does behaviour lead technology? Ruth Mace argues that the pill was invented to serve a Darwinian need.
