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Seeking truth with an evolutionary toolkit in a complex world.
EVOLUTIONARY THEORIST + PROFESSOR IN EXILE
Dr. Bret Weinstein has spent two decades advancing the field of evolutionary biology, earning his PhD at the University of Michigan, before teaching at The Evergreen State College for 14 years, from which he resigned his tenured position in 2017. He has developed a new Darwinian framework based on design trade-offs, and made important discoveries regarding the evolution of cancer, senescence and the adaptive significance of moral self-sacrifice.
He is currently working to uncover the evolutionary meaning of large scale patterns in human history, and seeking a game theoretically stable path forward for humanity. With his wife, Heather Heying, he co-wrote A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, and is the host of the DarkHorse Podcast.
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Want to have Bret speak at your next event? He delivers dynamic lectures on a variety of topics from harnessing evolution, to the state of the world today.
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THE PODCAST
On The DarkHorse Podcast, we will explore questions that matter, with tools that work. Weekly episodes of "The Evolutionary Lens" are co-hosted with Heather Heying, in which we use an evolutionary toolkit to reveal patterns in nature—including human nature. Other episodes will feature Bret hosting long-form discussions.
Some guests will be well known, others obscure, but all of them are chosen because they have demonstrated unusual insight. The state and future of civilization will be a recurring theme, so buckle up!
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BOOK RELEASE
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide
to the 21st Century
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever.
Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these two truths? What's more, what can we do to close it?