The Jim Rutt Show

The Jim Rutt Show


EP64 Colin Wright on The New Evolution Deniers

July 09, 2020

Colin Wright talks with Jim about the new evolution deniers & its impact on his academic career, sex & gender, nature AND nurture, postmodernism, whiskey, and more...

Colin Wright talks with Jim about his critiques of the new evolution deniers & the impact it had on his search for academic faculty positions, the connections & differences between sex & gender, primary vs secondary sex traits, the re-emergence of the blank slate theory, the naturalistic fallacy, embracing nature AND nurture, dangers of postmodernism, critical race theory, religion & dogma, religious behavior without the supernatural, Colin & Jim's appreciation of whiskey, and more.

Episode Transcript

Mentions & Recommendations

Colin's Quillette article, The New Evolution Deniers
Colin's Publication History
Quillette article, What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
John Vervaeke

Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist, Quillette assistant editor, and lover of whisk(e)y, fitness, and ideas.