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My guest today is Samuel Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Yale Depression Research Program. His primary research has focused on depression and suicide prevention and has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
The topic is his book Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Evolution and human nature
- Science and religion
- Purpose and meaning of existence
- Convergent evolution
- Competing dispositions and altruism
- Inheritance of traits, intelligence, and behaviors
- Free will and its significance
- Biological perspective on human behavior
- Importance of family and kin selection in evolution
- A good society and its challenges
Mentions & Resources:
- Samuel Wilkinson
- Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence
- Charles Townes
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Richard Dawkins
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Franks
- M. Scott Peck
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