Episode 104 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how the Default Mode Network fails in depression, why cultures do cranial deformation, and the evolutionary journey of monogamy.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (Default Mode Network in depression)

00:16:20 Question 2 (Cranial Deformation)

00:24:26 Question 3 (Pair-bonding in mammals)

Episode 103 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the woman who is able to smell Parkinson’s, the ratio of brain to body mass, and the role of ritualistic physical harm in religion.

NOTE this episode contains semi-graphic discussion of acts of physical harm.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (The Woman Who Smells Parkinson’s)

00:14:25 Question 2 (Brain body ratios)

00:19:38 Question 3 (Ritualistic harm in religion)

Episode 102 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the status of the reintroduced Galápagos tortoise species, why we get food comas, and the mysterious world of weasel war dances.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Tortoise updates)

00:05:10 Question 2 (Food comas)

00:15:16 Question 3 (Weasel war dances)

Episode 101 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include if and why humans are getting taller overall, what caused us to evolve without tails, and the pros and cons of senescence.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Human Heights)

00:15:22 Question 2 (How we lost our tails)

00:24:40 Question 3 (Senescence)

Episode 100 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes how this podcast came to be, SSRI’s versus SNRI’s, gorillas and gibbons in Sapolsky life, and the allure (and neuroscience) of the occult.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:51 Question 1 (Why This Podcast)

00:03:18 Question 2 (SSRI’s vs SNRI’s)

00:12:11 Question 3 (Gorillas)

00:16:16 Question 3 (Gibbons)

00:20:06 Question 3 (Belief in the occult)

Episode 99 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether cavemen actually existed and in what form, why we can feel weather in our limbs, and whether the age of consent should be raised to match brain maturation.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Cavemen)

00:09:37 Question 2 (Feeling the weather)

00:12:55 Question 3 (Age of consent)

Episode 98 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of why blood pressure increase in exercise is a good thing, how loss of smell foreshadows Parkinson’s, and whether neural implants could be used to increase cognitive strength.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Benefits of exercise)

00:09:56 Question 2 (Parkinson’s smell loss)

00:18:31 Question 3 (Neural implants)

Episode 97 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether emotional associations with musical patterns are universal, if single genes can ever cause a psychiatric disorder, and how other primates provide medical care to themselves and others.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Music and emotions)

00:09:05 Question 2 (Singular gene causes)

00:18:35 Question 3 (Primate medical care)