Ranked #1

Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi
Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi
In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural ... Read more
11 Sep 2020
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #2

Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A conversation about primate societies with Joan Silk.
Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A conversation about primate societies with Joan Silk.
The idea that nature, left to itself, reaches some sort of harmonious balance is still widespread in the lay public and ... Read more
26 Feb 2020
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44mins
Ranked #3

Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead
Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead
Peter Gray, the first psychologist to write an introductory psychology textbook from an evolutionary perspective, experi... Read more
21 Oct 2019
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42mins
Ranked #4

Dugnad as part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
Dugnad as part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
What is Dugnad? It is a uniquely Norwegian word that identifies an important aspect of its culture of cooperation. David... Read more
29 Jan 2020
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41mins
Ranked #5

Elliott Sober on the Origins of Multilevel Selection
Elliott Sober on the Origins of Multilevel Selection
One of the high points of David's professional life has been to work with Elliott Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and ... Read more
21 Oct 2019
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35mins
Ranked #6

Peter J. Richerson: Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective
Peter J. Richerson: Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective
David discusses morality from an evolutionary perspective with analytic philosopher Peter J. Richerson. Peter is best kn... Read more
13 Aug 2020
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51mins
Ranked #7

Pragmatism and the Third Way with Trygve Throntveit
Pragmatism and the Third Way with Trygve Throntveit
In the late 19th century, a tiny group of intellectuals who called themselves Pragmatists were to have an outsized influ... Read more
27 May 2020
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48mins
Ranked #8

Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan
Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan
Meet Toby Shannan--the son of hippy parents growing up in rural Canada, high school jock, college dropout, construction ... Read more
25 May 2020
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #9

Tightening and Loosening Up for the Coronavirus Pandemic with Michele Gelfand
Tightening and Loosening Up for the Coronavirus Pandemic with Michele Gelfand
TVOL's first podcast with Michele Gelfand explored an axis of cultural variation from "tight" (strong norms, strongly en... Read more
5 May 2020
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56mins
Ranked #10

Finding Purpose in Evolution Education
Finding Purpose in Evolution Education
Evolution education is often considered solely the domain of the biology classroom, with evolutionary explanations cente... Read more
27 Apr 2020
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #11

Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby
Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby
Max Beilby and Mark van Vugt discuss the science of evolutionary mismatch how it can help us understand human behavior i... Read more
29 Mar 2020
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1hr 1min
Ranked #12

PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass
PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass
In 1992, the evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby predicted, "Just as one can now flip open Gray's An... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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32mins
Ranked #13

Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten
Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten
David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many othe... Read more
19 Jan 2021
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #14

Human Nature at Work, with Andrew O'Keeffe
Human Nature at Work, with Andrew O'Keeffe
TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dime... Read more
12 Oct 2020
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #15

Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground
Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground
Phrases such as "social constructivism" and "relativism" signal the importance of symbolic meaning systems in human life... Read more
21 Oct 2019
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27mins