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)