Paternal investment
Subject in Life Sciences
Paternal investment has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Modern Wisdom. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
David GearyEvolutionary psychologist, cognitive scientist, and professor at the University of Missouri
Geary says that, with Mark Flinn, he argued 25 years ago that australopithecines lived in gorilla-like single-male harems, the germ of human paternal investment.
“So Mark Flynn and I argued 25 years ago now that our Australopithecine ancestors were more like gorillas”
Modern Wisdom: How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172 (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 40:50
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- Modern Wisdom · 1 episode
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How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172Modern Wisdom · Nov 5, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Evolutionary psychologist David Geary tells Chris Williamson how male coalitional warfare, status competition, and technology shaped human brain evolution and modern behavior.