The Dissenter

My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 700 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

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Friday Aug 09, 2019

#214 Jonathon Crystal: Memory and Metacognition in Animal Models

Friday Aug 09, 2019

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Dr. Jonathon Crystal is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. His research focuses on developing animal models of cognition. His current work focuses on episodic memory, source memory, and prospective memory in rats. He has also developed rodent models to assess retrieval practice, working memory, and metacognition. He is currently the Editor of Learning & Behavior, and he recently served as President of the Comparative Cognition Society.
In this episode, we talk about studying memory in nonhuman animals, primarily in rats. First, we talk about ways of classifying different types of memory. We then get into how Dr. Crystal designs experiments to study different types of memory and know if they even exist in other animals, including episodic memory and prospective memory. Toward the end, we also refer to metacognition.
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Animal Models of Episodic Memory: https://bit.ly/2RIIHEl
Episodic-like Memory in the Rat: https://bit.ly/2ZK1ZM5
Prospective memory in the rat: https://bit.ly/2X1JSjd
Metacognition in animals: https://bit.ly/31TqxnN
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Friday Aug 09, 2019

Iris Berent Part 2: Spoken Language, Sign Language, Written Language, and the Pirahã

Friday Aug 09, 2019

Thursday Aug 08, 2019

#213 Paulo Castro: Philosophy of Quantum Physics, Pilot Wave Theory, And the EmDrive

Thursday Aug 08, 2019

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Dr. PauIo Castro graduated in Anthropology at the NOVA University of Lisbon in 1996 after studying Physics at the University of Lisbon. He taught Mathematics and IT in Secondary and Polythecnical schools. In 2014 he obtained his PhD in the Philosophy of Contemporary Thought at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, with the dissertation “The Epistemology of Choice – On the possibility of artificial simulation of human intelligence”. In 2015 Dr. Castro became a member of the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon in the Philosophy of Nature Sciences Research Group, working on Philosophy of Quantum Physics. Recently, and pursuing more foundational questions in Physics, he’s started working on the Philosophy of Quantum Gravity. He is also very interested in both Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Philosophy, related to Sustainability.
In this episode, we get into the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. We talk about the pilot wave theory, quantum gravity, and the EmDrive, or the radio frequency (RF) resonant cavity thruster. In the last part of the interview, we also discuss the relationship between philosophy and science in the modern era.
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Spacetime as an Emergent Phenomenon: A Possible Way to Explain Entanglement and the Tunnel Effect: https://bit.ly/2RotpnU
Exclusive: This Wild Paper Suggests Gravity Is Just a Product of Quantum Mechanics: https://bit.ly/2VjIVCe
This Overlooked Theory Could Be The Missing Piece That Explains How The EM Drive Works: https://bit.ly/2ITiyyx
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Thursday Aug 08, 2019

Iris Berent Part 1: Skinner and Chomsky, Linguistics and Cognition

Thursday Aug 08, 2019

Wednesday Aug 07, 2019

#130 Iris Berent: Linguistics, Skinner and Chomsky, Spoken and Written Language

Wednesday Aug 07, 2019

Tuesday Aug 06, 2019

#129 Igor Grossmann: Culture, Emotion Regulation, and Wisdom

Tuesday Aug 06, 2019

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Dr. Igor Grossmann is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He’s been the recipient of several awards, including the 2015 "Rising Star" Award, by the Association for Psychological Science; the 2015 President's New Researcher Award, by the Canadian Psychological Association; the 2017 Early Career Award, by the Ontario Ministry of Research Innovation and Science; and the 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award, by the International Max Plank Research School on the Life Course (LIFE). Dr. Grossmann is a behavioral scientist exploring the interplay of sociocultural factors for adaptive emotion regulation and wisdom in the face of daily stressors.
In this episode, our conversation focuses on emotion, emotion regulation, emotion expression, and wisdom. First, we address what emotions are, and how we can study them. Then, we talk about how culture can influence emotions in their several domains. We also talk about some specific innate aspects like personality. Then, in the second part, we discuss what is wisdom, some of its components, and the benefits that individuals and societies can get from promoting it.
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01:10 What are emotions?
06:57 How do we study emotions?
10:11 How culture influences emotions and emotion regulation
17:08 The emotional experiences of Americans and Japanese people
23:13 People’s worldview and how they experience emotion
27:27 Personality and emotion
33:52 The different between intelligence and wisdom
37:15 Emotion regulation and wisdom
42:26 Do people become wiser as they age?
47:24 The importance of self-reflection
48:16 How can we become wiser?
54:34 Can we also obtain collective benefits from wisdom?
59:12 Follow Dr. Grossmann’s work!
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On Wisdom podcast: https://tinyurl.com/y8kvry3y
Twitter handle: @psywisdom
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Monday Aug 05, 2019

#212 Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality; Perception, Consciousness, And Reality

Monday Aug 05, 2019

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Dr. Donald Hoffman is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Hoffman studies consciousness, visual perception and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind-body problem. He has co-authored two technical books: Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception, and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision. He is just about to release a new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.
In this episode, we talk about how perception (particularly visual perception) works, how it has evolved, and the implications that has to how we deal with “objective reality”. First, Dr. Hoffman explains how he studies the architecture of vision. We discuss the evolutionary rationale behind perception, or how it has evolved – the interface theory of perception. In the second part, we go a little but metaphysical, and discuss what is reality, and the role that consciousness plays in it.
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Monday Aug 05, 2019

Randy Thornhill Part 2: Parasite-Stress, Disgust, Religion, Values, and Speciation

Monday Aug 05, 2019

Saturday Aug 03, 2019

Randy Thornhill Part 1: Parasite-Stress, Culture, Politics, Sociality, and Personality

Saturday Aug 03, 2019

Friday Aug 02, 2019

#211 Catherine Wilson: Epicureanism, Atomism, Materialism, And Modernity

Friday Aug 02, 2019

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Dr. Catherine Wilson was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, and is now teaching part-time at the City University of New York, and also a writer. She holds degrees in Philosophy from Yale, Oxford and Princeton and has taught in the USA, Canada, and Germany. Dr. Wilson teaches and writes in the history of modern philosophy and on early modern science and also works in the areas of ethics and aesthetics with a special interest in the evolution of morality and the science behind visual experience. She’s the author of books like Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity, and Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction, and Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy.
In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Wilson to talk about Epicureanism. We talk about its origins; some of its basic tenets, like materialism and atomism; how the epicureans thought about perception; and an early form of protodarwinism. We also refer to how the European early scientists and Enlightenment philosophers got influenced by Epicureanism. In the second part of the conversation, we discuss the Epicurean philosophy of life, and in what significant ways it diverged from Stoicism.
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Friday Aug 02, 2019

#128 Randy Thornhill: Parasite-Stress, Sociality, Values, Personality, and Politics

Friday Aug 02, 2019

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Dr. Randy Thornhill is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, and was president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society from 2011 to 2013. He is known for his evolutionary explanation of rape as well as his work on insect mating systems and the parasite-stress theory. He’s the author of several books, including A Natural History of Rape, and The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality.
In this episode, we focus on the main topics of Dr. Thornhill’s book, The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality (https://tinyurl.com/ybuant6k). We explore the evolutionary bases of the behavioral immune system, and the strategies humans and other animals evolved, in terms of sociality, to avoid getting in contact with sources of infection and contamination. In the case of humans, these strategies involve politics, culture, society, personality, and other aspects. We also refer to the biological bases of culture; the emotions of disgust and fear; the cultural differences between the southern and the northern United States; religious content to do with purity and pathogen avoidance; how parasite-stress might have affected the development of the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, and the 60’s Cultural Revolution; and also how it is a factor that contributes to speciation.
Time Links:
01:51 What is the Parasite-Stress Theory of Values?
20:02 The biological bases of culture
31:51 Pathogen levels, and excluding other possible factors
34:03 Effects on personality traits
37:58 Infectious disease and trust within groups
39:44 Social and political conservatism
43:52 Be careful about the naturalistic fallacy
45:08 Pathogens from human sources, and the ones from other animals (zoonotic sources)
49:37 Disgust and fear
53:50 The issue with domesticated animals
56:22 Philopatry and migration
1:02:25 Infection, neurodevelopment, IQ, and openness to ideas
1:07:09 Parasite-stress, and the values of northern and southern Americans
1:15:12 Religion, purity, and pathogen avoidance
1:21:16 The Inquisition, the Enlightenment, and the Cultural Revolution in the 60’s
1:31:46 Considering environmental factors, and where cultural values come from
1:34:01 Parasite-stress and speciation
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Thursday Aug 01, 2019

#210 Dwight Read: Cultural Kin Systems, And The Evolution of Human Sociality

Thursday Aug 01, 2019

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Dr. Dwight Read is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). His research interests include mathematical anthropology, the structural logic of kinship terminologies, theory of social organization, cultural evolution, and archaeological classification. He’s the author of books like Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach, Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane, and How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies.
In this episode, we discuss the evolutionary bases of human sociality. We talk about how sociality evolved from Old World monkeys to chimpanzees and to humans. We refer to the role of biological kin selection, and the biological traits that provided a basis for the cultural evolution of kin systems. We discuss the social function of kin systems, their limits, and group identities beyond kin.
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Thursday Aug 01, 2019

#127 Michael Graziano: Consciousness, From Animals To AI

Thursday Aug 01, 2019

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Dr. Michael Graziano is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the "attention schema" theory, an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves. His previous work focused on how the cerebral cortex monitors the space around the body and controls movement within that space. Notably he has suggested that the classical map of the body in motor cortex, the homunculus, is not correct and is better described as a map of complex actions that make up the behavioral repertoire. He's also the author of 13 books, including Consciousness and the Social Brain (2013), and The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature (2018).
In this episode, we focus our conversation on the topic of consciousness. Basically, what is consciousness, from a scientific perspective, and its relationship to other cognitive components of our brains. Also, the interplay between attention, awareness, and consciousness. The evolutionary relevance of consciousness for social species, and theory of mind. How we can tackle the hard problem of consciousness. “Illusionism”, or consciousness as an illusion of the mind. And, finally, we address the current limitations in studying consciousness in other animals; if we are close to create conscious AI; and also António Damásio’s proposal to the wat consciousness is build up from lower-order neurological processes.
Time Links:
00:53 What is consciousness?
02:50 Are there different components to consciousness?
05:00 The relationship between consciousness and other cognitive processes
07:18 The importance of attention
08:56 Conscious and unconscious processes
11:52 Attention and awareness
13:59 Awareness and consciousness
21:06 The evolutionary and social relevance of consciousness
24:19 Consciousness and theory of mind
26:50 About social insects and consciousness
28:58 Is there group consciousness?
30:19 The hard problem of consciousness
33:52 Consciousness as an illusion
36:21 Consciousness in other animals
39:04 Can we create conscious AI?
40:29 António Damásio’s approach to consciousness
44:33 Follow Dr. Graziano’s work!
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019

#126 Sarah Hill: Life History Theory, Puberty, Immune Function, and Mating Strategies

Wednesday Jul 31, 2019

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Dr. Sarah Hill is Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas Christian University. She studies a range of topics, applying an evolutionary lens, including the interplay between immune function and mating strategies; the impact of inflammation; poverty, food regulation, and weight gain; hormonal contraceptives and mate choice; and other topics under the rubric of life history theory.
In this episode, we talk about life history theory; how life history varies between species, and also how environmental cues might trigger fast or slow life history strategies. We talk about how it all starts in the uterus; the environmental cues people pay more attention to; how personality and other psychological traits might produce individual variation in dealing with the same cues. The we get into specific topics, like immune function; age of puberty onset; inflammation; eating habits and weight gain; how contraceptives affect women’s mating strategies; and also how technology like online , dating websites, and robots might tweak men’s mating strategies toward preferring short-term relationships.
Time Links:
00:46 What is life history theory?
04:05 Stages of life history in humans
07:41 It all starts in the uterus…
13:02 The environmental cues people pay attention to
16:01 Individual variation
17:38 Immune function and life history
24:56 Puberty triggers and women’s reproductive strategies
31:28 Inflammation, eating habits, and metabolic diseases
36:40 Contraceptives and women’s mating strategies
41:21 Current technology and men’s short-term mating
45:55 Can life history help us tackle social issues?
48:45 , robots, and feminist issues
50:25 Follow Dr. Hill’s work!
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Tuesday Jul 30, 2019

#125 Patrick Forscher: Implicit Bias, Stereotypes, and the Science Reform Movement

Tuesday Jul 30, 2019

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Dr. Patrick Forscher is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. He studies social disparities and what to do about them. He also has a strong interest in research methods. As such, he has used a wide variety of methods to pursue his research interests, including scale construction, meta-analysis, field research, and conventional laboratory studies.
In this episode, we talk about implicit biases, stereotypes, and prejudice. We start by discussing the scientific validity of the concept of “implicit bias”; the issue with distinguishing implicit bias, explicit bias, and overt behavior; how stereotypes affect people’s behavior; some interesting approaches to changing people’s stereotypes, and prevent discriminatory behavior. In the final segment of the interview, we also discuss the science reform movement, and some of the reasons behind the replicability crisis in science.
Time Links:
00:35 What are implicit biases? And do they even exist?
01:42 Implicit bias, explicit bias, and behavior
11:34 The implicit bias association test
17:18 Stereotypes and prejudice
20:12 Could people just be rationalizing their behavior?
26:57 Some approaches to changing people’s stereotypes
33:12 The science reform movement
38:35 Flaws in the current way of doing science, and the replicability crisis
52:50 Follow Dr. Forscher’s work!
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Twitter handle: @psforscher
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Monday Jul 29, 2019

#209 Cecilia Heyes: Cultural Evolutionary Psychology, Imitation, And Mindreading

Monday Jul 29, 2019

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Dr. Cecilia Heyes is a Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Science at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She was trained as an experimental psychologist at University College London (UCL, 1978-84). As a Harkness Fellow in the United States (1984-6), she studied evolutionary epistemology with Donald T. Campbell and philosophy of mind with Daniel Dennett. She’s done experimental work, initially in animal cognition and later in cognitive neuroscience, and more recently her group developed and tested an associative account of the origins of imitation and the mirror neuron system. She’s the author of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking.
In this episode, we talk about the approach developed by Dr. Cecilia Heyes and collaborators, as exposed in her book, Cognitive Gadgets – cultural evolutionary theory. First, we discuss what it borrows from Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolutionary Theory, and what assumptions from both of those fields it rejects. We talk about modularity of mind, and then get into two of the cognitive mechanisms that Dr. Heyes explores in the book, namely imitation and mindreading (or theory of mind). We get a bit into how language might influence our thinking. And toward the end we address issues regarding human nature, and evolutionary mismatch.
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Twitter handle: @CeliaHeyes
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Monday Jul 29, 2019

Robert Plomin Part 2: Polygenic Scores, Clinical Psychology, and Gene Editing

Monday Jul 29, 2019

Saturday Jul 27, 2019

Robert Plomin Part 1: Behavioral Genetics, Twins and Adoptees, and GWAS

Saturday Jul 27, 2019

Friday Jul 26, 2019

#124 Robert Plomin: Blueprint, Genetics, Environment, Clinical Psychology, and Gene Editing

Friday Jul 26, 2019

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Dr. Robert Plomin is Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Center at King’s College London, and Research Professor at the Medical Research Council (MRC). He’s one of the leading figures in the entire field of Behavioral Genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dr. Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. And he’s also the author of many books, including Behavioral Genetics: A Primer (1989), Separate Lives: Why Siblings Are So Different (1992), Nature And Nurture: An Introduction To Human Behavioral Genetics (2004), Nature and Nurture During Infancy and Early Childhood (2006), G Is for Genes (2013), and, the most recent one, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (2018).
In this episode, we start off by talking about the history and development of the field of Behavioral Genetics. We also address the issue of environmentalism in Psychology and the behavioral sciences. We also go through some of the basic concepts in Behavioral Genetics, like heritability, gene-environment correlations, and twin and adoptee studies. We also tackle the problems with environmental factors in human behavior. We also deal with GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Studies), polygenic scores and the type of information we can obtain from them and what we can do with it. We also talk about how clinical psychology and psychiatry should revise the way they classify mental conditions, moving from a qualitative to a quantitative approach, and some of the current limitations in these fields. Toward the end, we also briefly discuss the potential of gene editing technologies.
Time Links:
01:07 The history of Behavioral Genetics
09:13 Environmentalism in the history of Psychology
14:22 Normative vs individual differences
19:32 Twin studies
26:12 The effects of the environment are mediated by genetics; gene-environment correlations
33:17 Uncontrolled accidents and unique life events
40:02 Actively seeking environments
42:47 All behavioral traits are heritable
50:00 Genome-wide association studies and identifying genes
1:00:29 Making good use of polygenic scores, and issues regarding society and equality of opportunity
1:17:28 Science does not dictate moral nor social values
1:22:14 About clinical psychology, and the classification of mental conditions
1:37:50 Certain biases in clinical psychology, and what happens when children develop in deprived environments
1:44:43 Is gene editing around the corner for complex psychological traits?
1:48:30 How pleiotropy complicates gene editing
1:50:44 Follow Dr. Plomin’s work!
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Other books: https://tinyurl.com/y92gb3rt
Twitter handle: @RobertPlomin
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Friday Jul 26, 2019

#208 David Wootton: History of Science, Philosophy, Politics, And Capitalism

Friday Jul 26, 2019

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Dr. David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English-speaking countries, Italy, and France, from the 17th to the 19th centuries. His most recent book is Power, Pleasure, and Profit published by Harvard University Press, and he’s also the author of The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. He has given the Carlyle and Besterman Lectures at Oxford, the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy and the Benedict Lectures at Boston.
In this episode, we talk about some of the main topics explored by Dr. Wootton in The Invention of Science. We discuss the historical precursors of science, and the new conceptual framework that developed around the 17th century. We also refer to the progress of science, where Thomas Kuhn failed, the relationship between philosophy and science, and science as a cultural construct. We go through the earliest developments in Astronomy and Earth geography, the discovery of the Americas and the historical relationship between science and political power. We discuss some hypotheses for why China did not get to develop science before Europe, and the relationship between science and technology. Finally, we look into how science might have influenced the development of capitalism (and vice-versa).
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison: https://amzn.to/2MJTW0l
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Thursday Jul 25, 2019

#207 Eugénia Cunha: Antropologia Biológica e Forense, e Evolução Humana

Thursday Jul 25, 2019

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A Dra. Eugénia Cunha é Professora Catedrática de Antropologia no Departamento de Ciências da Vida da FCTUC (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra). É, desde 2018, Diretora do Instituto de Medicina Legal de Lisboa, Coordenadora do 2º ciclo em Evolução e Biologia Humana na FCTUC, sendo igualmente co-editora de um livro internacional em Antropologia Forense e autora de diversos artigos científicos e de divulgação. A sua investigação foca-se na biologia do esqueleto no âmbito da Antropologia Forense e da Evolução Humana.
Neste episódio, falamos sobre Antropologia Biológica, Antropologia Forense e alguns aspetos da nossa história evolutiva. Começamos por falar sobre o que é a Antropologia Biológica, dificuldades e limitações em reconstruir a nossa história evolutiva, a descoberta recente do H. luzonensis, a iliteracia científica generalizada e o cuidado que é necessário ter na comunicação da ciência. Abordamos também tópicos específicos, como a classificação de espécies de hominídeos, o caso dos Neandertais e das suas capacidades e porque é que se extinguiram, e a evolução do bipedismo e da dieta humana. Terminamos com uma curta exposição acerca do que é a Antropologia Forense e aquilo que estuda.
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Página pessoal da Universidade de Coimbra (UC): https://bit.ly/2Qehl8c
Página de docente da UC: https://bit.ly/2VAqd9a
Perfil no Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2YzOoX8
Livros na Wook: https://bit.ly/2Wfh2j0
Antropóloga Forense: https://bit.ly/2JwjV8O
Eugenia Cunha - 5 MINUTOS COM UM CIENTISTA: https://bit.ly/2HwlS3b
Ossos: Eugénia Cunha at TEDxCoimbra: https://bit.ly/2VVvzRm
Ler Ossos | Eugénia Cunha | TEDxMatosinhos: https://bit.ly/2JvpggR
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