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Gad Saad

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“So that's a very good question. So, that is the difference between proximate explanations and ultimate explanations. Much of science operates at the proximate level. It explains the how and the what of a phenomenon. How does diabetes work? What are the factors that increase the likelihood of you having diabetes? That's perfectly fine. The ultimate explanation is the Darwinian why. Why would the phenomenon have evolved to be of that type? So you could say I'm just drawn to a guy who knows how to play music. You've just explained proximate. It's like saying, why have we evolved to have sex? Because it feels good. That's approximate. The ultimate explanation is that sexually reproducing species has to have a mechanism by which you're drawn to engage in the behavior that results in procreation. So it's not that ultimate explanations are superior to proximate ones.”
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“be madly in love with the starving artist, but the starving artist is showing what? Ambition, assertiveness, there is a trajectory of creation that's coming around the corner. I'm going to become a big rock star. But that's why, by the way, if you do, I think that study has been done where you and Ashley some of my students in one of my classes did a similar study for their project, just show a guy, exact same guy in a personal ad. He's got a guitar, he doesn't have a guitar. Nothing changed. It's the exact same guy. It's Steven. But give me a guitar. Oh, with the guitar, Steven's gorgeous. Without the guitar, he's less gorgeous.”
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“like about us or not like about us. Overwhelmingly, by the way, the number one universal attribute that women seek is anything that's related to social status, right? So in other words, it could be my ambition, it could be my assertiveness, it could be my social dominance, it could be literally the big diplomas I have behind my back. It could be the number of zeros behind in my bank. It could be how many cattleheads I have if I'm Hadza tribe. In no culture has a woman ever said the following Give me a non assertive beta, meek man who has pear shaped hips and a nasal voice and I'm turning into a sexual frenzied animal. Those words have never been uttered in the history of humanity. But what women will say, by the way, it's not that they only look for rich guys, right? Because many women would”
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“So imagine a car a car is made up of many attributes, right? So the car could be what's its gas efficiency, what's the strength of its engine? How well does it hug the road? What's its green? Is it a green car or does it have bad exhaust? So a car is a multi attribute product. It's made up of many attributes. And then it could be that the way that I choose which car I pick is the one that scores the best on the totality of those attributes. That's called the multi-attribute choice. Well, human beings are also products made up of many attributes. So in the mating market, you and I, let's say we do men now, but of course it applies to women too. There's a bunch of attributes that we know that women are going to”
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“Now from a strict economic perspective, why don't we skip this whole charade? I'm going to pay $70 for your meal. You're going to pay $70 for mine. We're going to end up in the same spot. Let's not do it. The reason why we have to do it is because that reciprocal ritual is what oils our bonds of affinity. And so there are many, many behaviors that we engage in that are exactly tailoring that. So to summarize, much of our behaviors I argue in my earlier books could be mapped onto one of these four modules.”
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“high calorie foods is caloric uncertainty and caloric scarcity. We don't have a neighborhood store to go by our food. So I might actually die of starvation. Well, what if we mitigate that risk whereby we set up an insurance policy with non-kin, another group of folks that are also walking around the savannah? Hey, next time that we bring down the big prey, that's a thousand pounds of meat, we will share with you, but hey, you do the right thing and reciprocate back to us. So now you might say, okay, well, that's all nice fancy science, but how does that manifest itself in human consumer behavior? Well, there are so many behaviors that you and I engage in if we're friends that are completely rooted in that reciprocal module. So for example, when it's your birthday, I call you and I invite you out to dinner. I expect, unless you're a social cheat, that when it's my birthday you will reciprocate.”
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“Return fair. So literally the eye scratch your back, you scratch mine, literally comes from our primate cousin species where you engage in reciprocal grooming. So what happens? There are a bunch of parasites that are all over my fur that I can't get to. And so what I do is I come stand and I give you my back and you will sit there and pick at all of it. Of course, the expectation is you'll now return the favor. So I literally scratch your back and you scratch mine. Now where did that signature come from originally? One argument is that imagine we are walking around in the savannah where the most common threat that we face, life is basically two things, I mean, other than sex. Get dinner and make sure you don't become somebody's there. Mike dropped. That's it. That's life. Okay. So one of the problems that we've all faced, hence why we've evolved gustatory preferences for”
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“On the other hand, why would I jump into the river to save Stephen? First of all, until we met today, you're a stranger. Why would I ever save a stranger? If you're not a stranger and you're a friend, but you're still zero genetic relatedness. So there, the argument is that it's due to reciprocal altruism and that human beings have evolved the mechanism of reciprocity to oil our social bonds.”
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“Not that men don't do it, hair plugs, but it's very, very much of a female domain. And so there are many, many behaviors, whether consumer related or not, that could be then mapped onto the reproductive module, to your question. Then there are two other modules that I hinted at earlier When I talked about gift giving. So there's the kin selection module. These are behaviors that are related to the fact of I increase my inclusive fitness by investing in my kin. And then there is reciprocal altruism module, which is why would I ever jump into the river? So if I jump into the river to save my three children, that's kin selection because each of my three children on average shares 50% of their genes with me. So if in the service of saving those three kids I end up dying, the evolutionary calculus is totally in favor of me dying. Who cares?”
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“Owners of Ferrari are ninety nine percent male, even though there are a million women who have the resources to certainly buy a Ferrari, yet they don't. Oprah Winfrey is not stopped from buying a Ferrari because she can't afford it, and yet she's not doing it. In the human context, fancy cars take on the morphological feature of the peacock's tail. So all animals that are sexually reproducing use sexual signals, humans, given that they're also a consumatory animal, will use specific products to signal look at me, I'm better than Steven. The way that I do that is by hopefully demonstrating cues that I have higher status than you. Now women will also engage in vigorous sexual signaling, but it'll be related to things that are beautification, right? So cosmetic surgeries around the world.”
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“Okay. And I'm willing to bet that everybody who's in the studio will also agree. Now, we may have a different preference. So I may prefer fatty steak. You prefer chocolate mousse, but we both prefer chocolate mousse and steak over raw celery. And so there are many consummatory acts and preferences that I can easily ultimately map to that drive. The most obvious of which would be our food preferences. To your direct question, then the next module, so that first module, I call it the survival module. The next module called the reproductive module, sex to your question, are all the things that we do because they're very much driven by sex-related issues. Types of products that men and women use as sexual signals are astonishingly the same across cultures. So for example”
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“I mean, so in my earlier books, so I'm going to answer it again in a big way. In my first book, which is the evolutionary basis of consumption, and then in the consuming instinct, I argue that there are four key Darwinian mechanisms that drive much of our purpose of behavior. So that speaks to your point. There is Behaviors that are related to natural selection or are survival instinct. So for example, the fact that I'm almost certain that you and I have a preference for some instantiation of a fatty food more than raw celery is almost a guarantee. Am”
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“Them are coming around so that when I first promulgated this idea 30 years ago, I was a Nazi. Today it's dear Dr. Sad, it would be an honor if you come and give the plenary lecture at our university. Oh, but what happened 30 years ago when I was a bullshitter? Well, apparently they caught on. So in my academic work, the mere fact of saying that we're biological beings was the most triggering thing. In my public engagement work that's not directly related to my science, well, it's a very long list, hence the parasitic mind. But certainly when I talk about things related, say, to Islam, that doesn't get me a lot of Islamic friends, unfortunately.”
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“Like a dead body So, let's say they're doing forensic pathology stuff. And then they move straight to a gynecological intervention with the woman. So when he said, and he did the studies that showed, hey, here are women who we ask the guys to clean or didn't ask the guys to clean. And people laughed him out of town. He died in a sanitarium, in a mental institution. He was complete. Like today, we erect statues of him, right? So to answer your first point, when I first started my career, when I said, oh, by the way, you can't study consumers without understanding their physiology, their hormones. What kind of bush is this? This is not a biology department. Get a grip. You should not be in the business school. What do you mean? You think that you can consumer eats, they transcend their biology, it's outside of their biology. Well, now a lot of...”
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“Yes, beautiful. Well done, Steve. So it's Samel Weiss. who was a doctor who said What's happening here? Why are these women getting this post natal very devastating fever and then within a day or two they're gone? And so he said, oh, wait a second. So the surgeons have just worked on cadavers.”
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“Stuff related to hygiene issues because a lot of times you'd have childhood mortality because of exposure to different pathogens. Well, the gentleman who came up with the idea of why so often women die during childbirth. Do you know what the answer is?”
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“So, in my scientific work, humans are biological beings shaped by the dual forces of sexual and natural selection. I mean, people are coming around now because the beauty of science is that it's autocorrective, right? I mean, some of the biggest works, you now know that they're the biggest work by how much they were originally rejected. Many Nobel Prizes, the story is always the same. The scientist proposes an idea that is completely unorthodox, contrary to the prevailing whims of accepted science and is constantly rejected until it's not. Very simple example. Probably the thing that has saved human beings the most from death over the past hundred years.”
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“With my women's studies in radical feminism classes, therefore when from this side of my mouth I say something that supports their ideology, I become a hero. If from this side of my mouth I say, oh, but incidentally across cultures, it's been studied across many, many cultures, men do have much greater desire for sexual variety. I can either go from hero to zero depending on whether what I just said supports your ideology or not. That's not how you adjudicate science. Science truth exists independently of whether it supports your ideology or not, hence eventually the parasitic mind, because you're parasitized by bad ideologies.”
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“For men to have evolved, the chemical weaponry to have blockers and killers means that in our ancestral past the likelihood of women having been with more than one man within a seventy two hour period, whether willfully or through aggression, would have been high. Therefore, that's why you evolve that response. Now, here is where you can see what happens with ideology and therefore why I wrote parasitic mind. When I lectured this in front of radical feminists, they'll come up, doctor Sad, you're such a brilliant scientist. Why? Because the research that I just described demonstrates that women could be just as sexually voracious as men, and that they've evolved a desire also for, you know, a sexual appetite, that corresponds.”
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“Defense, very good, and then there are the killers. That go around hunting other men's sperm. Now Let's put it all together Sperm is viable within the reproductive woman's reproductive tract for about seventy two hours. Therefore,”
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“The makeup of it is not simply the standard one that we're all used to seeing, which is there is a head with a tail and they're all rushing to that mythical egg. Those are called fertilizers. He demonstrated in his research that there are two other types of sperm phenotypes within a man's ejaculate. There are the blockers that don't look like the fertilizer and the”
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“Is being impregnated by multiple males. So the way that I fight against that is by developing bigger testes because then there are mechanisms where having bigger testes solves that problem. So now here comes Robin Baker, actually, a British scientist, who wrote a book called Spermoors, where he argued in his book. Some have said it's contentious, others said that it's tight, that the morphology of human sperm is”
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“Yes, because there isn't Spermoor competition. Therefore, imagine how unbelievable it is that a fundamental male morphological attribute, the size of your testes, is an adaptive response to a female behavior in that species. Greater female promiscuity in that species, bigger testicles. So mountain gorillas, very small testicles. are just walking testicles. Their bodies just exist to support massive testes. Why? Because in chimp society, we say hello sex. We say goodbye sex. We fight sex. Post fight sex. So there is constant sex happening so that the same female”
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“You got it? Yeah. Okay. So now can we close the loop on the sexual variety? So far I said that. There's definitely evidence that women also have a sexual variety pension by virtue of them cheating more when they are maximally fertile and not insisting on contraception and all that. Here's another one. You do a mapping of across primates. So here come the bonobos, here come mountain gorillas, here come chimpanzees, here comes humans. So you put all the primates and you do a calculation of the size of the testes of the males in that species as a function of female sexual promiscuous in that species. Are you willing? So, mountain gorillas, phenomenal beasts four hundred and fifty pounds, some of the most majestic males, they have a territorial, they have a polygynous arrangement. There is one male”
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“No, because the mother's side is simply more vested in investing in either the bride or groom because they know that that is their infant.”
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“Uncertainty means that when a child is born, you never know that he is your child, right? The mother always know that it's her child. She had the child, right? So we wanted to test whether the mother's side of both the bride and groom would give greater gifts than the father's side precisely because there is no such thing as maternity uncertainty, but there is such a thing as paternity uncertainty. And that's exactly what we found.”
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“Quarter of their genes they share with you, but here's the second part genetic assuredness is not the same across the four. Your paternal grandfather has two layers of paternity uncertainty. Your maternal grandmother has zero generational paternal eternity uncertainty because there is no maternity uncertainty. So therefore you would predict that the paternal grandfather would invest the lease in his grandchildren. The maternal grandmother would invest the most and the two other grandparents in the middle, that's what's been found in many studies across many cultures.”
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“So we wanted to check whether at an actual Israeli wedding, because they had data from actual 30, I think it was 30 weddings, so they had field data. They had the data of all of the attendees and the gifts that they gave. Uncle Mordecai gave $180. Rafika gave, okay. So what we wanted to test is whether the mother's side or the father's side of the bride and groom across all genetic relatedness coefficients, which side would give more? Now, in the Middle East, it's a patriarchal society, but evolutionary theory would predict something differently. And let me explain why. So take, for example, your four grandparents. There is maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather. In terms of the genetic relatedness, they're each equally genetically related to you.”
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“Then I am to my second cousin. And so we've evolved this calculus that allows us to met out these investments in line with our genetic lateness, which by the way you see across countless animal species, the likelihood of you coming out of your burrow to protect people who are in the burrow increases if whoever's in the burrow has greater genetic relatedness to you. So the other part in the 2018 paper that's going to blow your mind because that one you wouldn't intuitively have expected it. The first finding, you said, yeah, it makes sense. I give more gifts to my brother than to my third cousin.”
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“100%. As a matter of fact, I've done several scientific studies where I exactly do these kinds of tests, where I look at What is the pattern of investment in different family members as a function of their genetic relatedness to me? So R is something called the coefficient of genetic relatedness. So me and my brother are R is five. Me and my identical twin are R is one. Me and a random stranger are R is zero. Me and my nephews and nieces two five. Me and my parents five. Me and my grandparents two five. So we wanted to test whether the pattern of investments in this case through gift giving whether they correlate to the genetic relatedness between the giver and recipient. And as you might expect intuitively, even if you're not a fancy evolutionary psychologist, the greater the genetic relatedness, the larger the size of gift. I'm much more likely to give a bigger gift at my brother's wedding.”
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“Multiple women, which is called polygyny, or it could be one woman multiple men, which is called polyandry. There are almost no societies where institutionally we have because it wouldn't make evolutionary sense for that mating system to arise. The only famous case of polyandry is called Tibetan fraternal polyandry, so the word fraternal means that to the extent that there are ecological reasons why we have to tolerate one woman going with multiple guys, it'll be brothers. And the reason for that is because of a mechanism called inclusive fitness, which is that I can increase my reproductive fitness through direct reproduction. I have children and therefore they will share half my genes. But I can also invest in the children of my siblings who share also genes with me, and I could still be increasing my inclusive fitness. So therefore polyandry need not be a Darwinian dead end because I'm still extending my genes even in such a system.”
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“Now imagine if I were four inches taller. Then, I mean, that's it. I would be crowned emperor. No, but in all seriousness, both men and women are very duplicitous in their sexual behavior. So the idea that monogamy is natural is not true now. It is natural in that about 85% of documented cultures have monogamy as an institutional mechanism because we're a biparental species and almost all the other ones have what's called polygyny, which is a term not to be confused with polygamy. So I'm going to do a little parenthesis and I'm going to come back to the lines of evidence that proves that women like sexual variety as well. So polygamy just means one to many. People use it as synonymous with one man multiple women, but that's not what polygamy is. Polygamy is one to many, which can take two forms. It could be one man.”
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“Phenotype is your physical manifestation, right? So if I say I want a guy who is tall, who has a V. who's got testosterone jawline, right? I mean, I don't usually, if I'm a woman, I don't, in my deep recess of my mind, fantasize about being ravished by Bill Gates. Do I?”
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“Who will cheat with a guy who is of lower phenotypic quality, genetic? So I would love to have Bill Gates as home as my long-term partner, but then I want the Male Olympic swimmer as the guy behind the bushes. Now, if I can convince Bill Gates that the Olympic male swimmer actually looks a lot like Bill Gates, and it's really your sweetie, it's you, Billy, you're the one who then I won the, as a woman, I've won the genetic lottery game, okay? So it's not that women are not interested in sexual variety. So that's one. Here's another one. If you map out, this is from studies, I think it was in the early eighties. I don't have the exact reference, but it's easy to find.”
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“Very good. You've done your homework. So when they are maximally fertile is when they're most likely to stray. Now, that strategy, by the way, and they're less likely to insist on contraception. You would think that if I'm cheating outside my marriage, I'm speaking as a woman now. If I'm cheating outside my marriage, I would want to increase the likelihood of wearing, I mean, using protection because I don't want to be pregnant. But if the strategy for why I'm cheating is because I'm shopping for superior genes, then it becomes incumbent that I don't use protection, right? So you seldom have a woman.”
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“So that's very good. So usually if I were to say, oh, men have evolved a desire for sexual variety, most people, even if they know nothing about evolution would say, yeah, that makes sense. But now here's the interesting part. Women too have evolved a very strong desire for sexual variety. Now, not to the same degree as men. So there have been studies that have been conducted across a bewildering number of cultures. And in every culture that's been documented, men are much more likely to want more sexual partners and so on. But that doesn't mean that women are Victorian chaste prudes. So now let me give you multiple lines of evidence that suggest that women are hardly the Victorian prudes that we might otherwise wish they were in a Victorian novel. You know when a woman is most likely to cheat situationally?”
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“Well, they all are, in a sense, in that we all have the desire to stray, but we don't necessarily instantiate that desire through overt behavior. Men and women.”
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“In a romantic relationship So it depends what you mean. When you say justifiable, you're falling into the trap of if you explain it scientifically, it's okay. We also have a moral compass that's due to an evolutionary mechanism. So one of the difficulties of life is how to navigate through the Darwinian strings that are pulling me in different directions, right? I've evolved a desire to gorge on fatty foods. But if I do that in an understained manner, I become a sumo wrestler and I die of heart disease at 42. So I've also evolved the mechanism of self-control. So the fact that I explained why it might make evolutionary sense to cheat doesn't mean I'm justifying it.”
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“With such complicated phenomena that are explained so elegantly, so parsimoniously, so simply so that you go yeah, that makes perfect sense, that was my eureka moment. And so evolutionary behavioral science is exactly what I just described the last five, ten minutes, which is taking the evolutionary biological and evolutionary psychological lens to study human phenomena.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the reason is, because we are a biparental species, human dads are extraordinary dads in the mammalian context, whereby far one of the most vested dads. Now, we don't invest as much as human females, but we are really super dads. So therefore, your ancestors and mine, Stephen, male ancestors, don't come from a line where they said, hey, don't worry, ladies, have at it with the sexy gardener as much as you'd like, because I'd be happy to then spend the next eighteen years raising Gino's kids. And therefore, we've evolved that system to try to thwart a fundamental danger to our genetic interest, which is paternity uncertainty. There is no such thing as maternity uncertainty, right? So, when I read that book, I”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, sometimes in those shows, it's because I want to get rid of my current wife so I can run off with another one. Notwithstanding that potential effect, usually when I go into a homicidal rage, it's because I am concerned that either you have cheated on me or you actually have proof that you have cheated on me.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whether it be her long term partner or prospective long-term partner, right? So to your point. Husband is the most dangerous and then the overwhelming number one reason that might drive him to domestic violence all the way to homicide. Is suspected or realized infidelity. Okay?”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Orders of magnitude more than anybody else. And the minute that I'll say it, you'll go, oh, no kidding. But the fact that you don't exactly demonstrate my point. And that's why evolution is so important.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you know Stephen who is by far the most dangerous individual that a woman will ever meet in her life? Whether it's the Yanomo tribe in the Amazon, whether it's the Hatsa tribe in Central Africa, whether it's in ancient Greece two thousand years ago, or whether it's in Detroit, Michigan two thousand years from now. Who is the most dangerous person by far that you will ever meet?”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's one example of how we've evolved the calculus in our brains to not feel as happy investing in other children in our own. Now, the next thing that ends up happening is some student will say, oh, but does that mean you are justifying through science child abuse? And of course the answer is no, right? And oncologists, studies cancer, that doesn't mean he or she is for cancer. That doesn't mean they are pro-cancer. It means that if you want to understand cancer, you have to study it honestly. So if you want to tackle child abuse and you now know that step parenthood is the biggest predictor, that's a valuable tidbit to have. That's example one. Example two.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. They kill off in a complete systematic infanticide genocide every single cub who by definition could not have been sired by them. Why? Because I'm going to spend a lot of energy and resources investing because we are a biparental species as a lion pride. I don't want to be investing in another male's cubs. Therefore, now, paradoxically, incredibly, I After the females put up a big fight to try to stop those new incoming males, they end up losing the fight, first thing that happens after is the females go into estrus, meaning they become sexually receptive to the new males. So I joke with my students in the human context you put on very white music to get the ladies interested. You buy a beautiful gift, you pay attention, you want to get the ladies' attention in line pride society, kill her children.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“in their children. What ends up happening is there's two or three dominant males within a pride, and they kick out all the young males that are now coming up so that there's all these frustrated young males in the savannah that are now looking to take over a pride. They will challenge the two three dominant males and for a very long time those older males will rebuff the attacks. But father time eventually catches up to you and you're left with two choices as the dominant male. You either leave and you end up having a slow death out alone in the wilderness or they will kill you. Now when the new incoming lions come in, do you know what's the first thing they do? First on the agenda list, first thing they do is what?”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there's a hundredfold increase in child abuse if the home is not made up of two biological parents. This is why the fable of Cinderella is such a universal fable because it speaks to an evolutionary principle. The nasty stepmother is only differentially nasty to her stepdaughter. She's actually very, very nice to her two biological daughters. So now you would say, well, what would be the evolutionary explanation for that? Well, we know in many, many species where you have very high parental investment, say for example in lion pride. Lions are the only feline group where they're a social group. Most other felines are solitary. The only thing that the male does is the copulatory act. And then he's off. Well, in lion pride, the males do invest heavily.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So let me explain what a hundredfold means. In science, when let's say you have, I want to check the efficacy of a drug and I want to compare it to a placebo, a sugar pill. Well, if it has a 1.2 odds ratio, meaning it's 20% more effective. So it's 1 to 1.2, that would be a big effect. 1 to 1.2. What I'm saying is 1 to 100. So it is astronomically greater effect than anything we would typically publish in science. Well, the number one reason, Stephen, I've kept you in suspense long enough, is if there is a step parent and the family.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, very, very reasonable answer. And so usually in lecture one, when I'm teaching in evolution psychology course, I'll ask this question and I'll start putting all the students' answers. And they're all reasonable answers. If there is alcoholism in the home, if one of the parents had been abused in their past so that they mimic that behavior onto their children then, all reasonable. Well, what if I, and by the way, no one guesses what the real answer is? So then I say, well, guess what, guys? You just listed 25 reasonable predictors. The number one predictor is a hundredfold more predictive than anything that's on that board. I've lectured this a million times. I'm getting goosebumps telling it to you right now.”
2024-09-09 · The Diary of a CEO · The Cancelled Professor: Husbands Are More Dangerous Than You Think! Men Are Hardwired To Cheat! Science Proves Monogamy Isn't Real! - Gad Saad · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT