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Evolutionary Psychology
Episodes · 12 months
23
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Nov 2025
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 4 of 3,584, 1 of 3,862, 2 of 4,115, 3 of 4,226, 2 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 3 of 4,230, 3 of 4,319, 3 of 4,515, 1 of 4,419, 1 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
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On record
38
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
1w ago
Nov 5, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
#Guest · last 13 weeksEpisodes, sorted, most firstVoiceRank
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp8 people
75%
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- Validate evolutionary psychology methods6 people · 75%
- Challenge standard evolutionary models2 people · 25%
Validate evolutionary psychology methods
Evolutionary psychology is a legitimate and maturing scientific framework for explaining complex human behaviors and traits.
6 people · 6 episodes
Evolutionary psychology offers fundamental explanations for human behaviors like criminality, which should be understood as scientific reasons rather than moral justifications.
“I'm not for child abuse. I'm not for domestic violence, but to the extent that it regrettably happens, here is the reason why it does.”
Lisa Bilyeu · May 2026 · 22 episodes · 8.1M views on this topicDL
Evolutionary psychology helps explain complex human behaviors by identifying the environmental cues and selective pressures that shaped our ancestors' decision-making systems.
“So evolution engineered into our psychology a very sophisticated system to allow us to detect uh detect relatives close genetic relatives and develop a sexual aversion towards them.”
Chris Williamson · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 69K views on this topic
Evolutionary psychology has transitioned from a field based on speculative stories to a mature scientific discipline capable of making testable, falsifiable predictions.
“So to assess the field as a whole, all I can say is it's becoming less of a storytelling field and more of a scientifically mature field on which they make predictions.”
Chris Williamson · Jun 2025 · 2 episodes · 82K views on this topicChallenge standard evolutionary models
Current evolutionary psychology paradigms often rely on rigid, oversimplified assumptions about mating and human gender differences.
2 people · 2 episodes
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The standard evolutionary psychology perspective on human mating overestimates the importance of mate value, rigid gender differences, and the short-term versus long-term mating distinction.
“I think it overestimates a few things. It exaggerates some features of human mating. And it's only in a few cases where I'm like, "Oh, it's totally off the mark." But I think there's a big emphasis on things like mate value, the idea that some people are more desirable than others.”
Chris Williamson · Feb 2026 · 3 episodes · 616K views on this topic
While evolutionary explanations for religious behavior are valuable, they do not fully account for religious experience because they ignore the underlying metaphysical reality.
“I believe the biological case and I believe the biologically reductive case but I don't think that exhausts it I think that there's a metaphysical layer underneath that that the bile or that the biology is a genuine reflection of”
Rebel Wisdom · Dec 2018 · 1 episode · 37K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topic
100%
Dr. Steve Balch - Naturalizing History: A Biocultural Theory of Human Progress (THE SAAD TRUTH_2079)
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Dec 2012