this is the best book I've read and heard 2021 !!

this is the best book I've read and heard in 2021 !! finally a thought provoking book that is informative going to be classic and simply trying to educate instead of selling !

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worth it

At first, I found their voices to be a little sleep inducing, but if you can stick with it, the information is incredible. I never use the bookmark function in Audible, but with this book, I used it often.

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Amazing

As always, Heather and Bret give us amazing insights in an entertaining and educative way.
Thanks a lot!

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A lot to think about

This is an excellent book. Although there are quite a few passages that feel pushy and many statements in this book are unsubstantiated, the overall outcome for me after listening to it is priceless. One by one this book addresses many facets of modern life and examines with the help of a universally applicable toolkit informed by evolution. I may not agree with some of the conclusions in this book but it gave me reason to careful think about them and about why I disagree. All in all this is an eye opening book that, at least for me, perfectly achieved its goal: it got me thinking deeply.

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excellent.

first review I ever wrote, but I thought it important, as before I purchased this audiobook, I had foundry because of the other reviews I read. this book is surely to the point, informative, and at the same time entertaining. both authors are doing a brilliant job of the narration too.

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interesting concepts but a political bias

there are some really interesting concepts like chestingers fence "if you have smth with seemingly no purpose, ask why its there in the first place and not gone yet"
or the whole chapter about cuisine was highly interesting to me.
BUT
there is some pretty blantant conservative bias
especially in the relationship aspect of it.
they argued heavily in favor of monogamy which is fair and made a lot of good arguments that i agree with, but they failed to address upsides of monogamy that clearly exist ("strongest genes wins out & the wealthiest person raises them") they would argue that my example wouldnt work due to the whealthy man having no evolutionary incentive to raise the kid, but this is smth that is present in the biggest(?) world religion islam so it does seem to work out somehow.
also a huge part of their argument is saying that dating culture leads to less intense bonds which is fair i can see how but also argue that it is worse for children.
when the only reason dating culture even really exists is condoms, most kids arent a result of a date gone wrong.
So a lot of chapters in book are just straight obsolete.
they go even further and get close to saying that every relationship beyond the first is already polygamy which in which case yeah dating culture would be harmful but i highly doubt thats how it was in prior hunter gatherer societies or they failed to demonstrate it being the case of humans bonding for life.
there are other things I took issue with, but all those aside as mentioned at the start a decent book which i would listen too again & dont regret buying.

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A decent book…But that title is somehow misplaced.

After listening to this book (it was recommended everywhere I looked) I just had the feeling that it’s just the wrong title.

This book is more like an ensemble of thoughts that the two authors or parents had and wanted to write them down.

Not very scientific. Not a good help in this world.

I was just disappointed. I expected more.

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Great Biologists, not so great elsewhere

Many bits of good advice and wisdom based on good biology and evolutionary science. As soon as they step into other realms, like economics or policy, they clearly falter and fall flat.
Also, it was written like how a smart person would try and write a dumbed down book but with all the caveats and attempts at 2nd order thinking to cover any objections from their colleagues. Awkward.

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