#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 6 a.m.

b'Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author.\\nLove is something that people have been trying to describe for thousands of years. Beyond asking what love is, is the question of why humans feel something so strange in the first place. Why would evolution have exposed us to this extreme sensation with huge potential for catastrophe and pain?\\nExpect to learn how love is adaptive, why humans need to have more sex than almost all other animals to get pregnant, why ancestral men who hunted big animals were only doing it to get laid, how the length of your fingers can tell you how promiscuous you are, whether Robin thinks humans were ancestrally monogamous and much more...\\nSponsors:\\nGet over 47% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM)\\nGet \\xa3150 discount on Eight Sleep products at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)\\nGet the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)\\nExtra Stuff:\\nBuy The Science Of Love - https://amzn.to/3wyJsW6\\nGet my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die \\u2192 https://chriswillx.com/books/\\nTo support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom\\n-\\nGet in touch.\\nInstagram:\\xa0https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx\\nTwitter:\\xa0https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx\\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast\\nEmail: https://chriswillx.com/contact/\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'