#460 Steven Gangestad: Ovulatory Shifts, Physical Attractiveness, and Psychological Adaptations
RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 3rd 2021.
Dr. Steven Gangestad is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include social behavior; interpersonal relationships; social/personality psychology; psychopathology; and health related behavior, as informed by Evolutionary Psychology.
In this episode, we talk about ovulatory shifts, physical attractiveness, and psychological adaptations and exaptations. We start with the ovulatory-shift hypothesis, and the several controversies surrounding it, and what we know and do not know about ovulation and its psychological effects on women. We talk about the evolution of human physical attractiveness. Toward the end, we discuss the best way to understand the evolution of phenotypic traits, and adaptationist and exaptationist programs. Finally, we discuss the relationship between life history theory and evolutionary psychology.
Time Links:
Intro
The ovulatory-shift hypothesis
Is ovulation concealed in women?
Extra-pair copulations
The evolution of human physical attractiveness, and body modifications
Adaptationism, and exaptations
Life history theory and evolutionary psychology
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Follow Dr. Gangestad’s work:
Faculty page: http://bit.ly/37zdpJo
ResearchGate profile: http://bit.ly/3pWBdOl
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality: http://amzn.to/3pFD1ee