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This View of Life

This View of Life takes a deep dive with the best and brightest thinkers on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. Hosted by David Sloan Wilson.

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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

1hr 26mins

Ranked #2

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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

44mins

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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

42mins

Ranked #4

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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

41mins

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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

35mins

Ranked #6

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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

51mins

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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

48mins

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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

1hr 15mins

Ranked #9

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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

56mins

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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

1hr 11mins

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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

1hr 1min

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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

32mins

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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

1hr 13mins

Ranked #14

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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

1hr 23mins

Ranked #15

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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

27mins

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