Portrays the exceptional life, career, and mental health challenges of living legend Robert Trivers, the evolutionary bi | dG1fVkREOEtWencxOHM
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00:00Every so often, someone comes along who sees the world differently.
00:11I believe, Lord, I believe too. I've seen the light.
00:16He has a feeling of wonderment. He has a feeling of wow.
00:20To hell with the view. I prefer the truth. I'm never afraid to make a fool of myself.
00:25Someone who is uncompromising.
00:27If you're for the truth, you have to be against falsehood.
00:30But I've been there.
00:32Someone who changed the way we see ourselves.
00:36Let's study a little psychology and see what they know.
00:39Well, they didn't know nothing.
00:41And nobody mentioned biology.
00:44Nobody mentioned natural selection.
00:47And therefore, nobody had a theory of function.
00:51We are all in this together, unified.
00:54I was in my anti-ego phase, which corresponded with the maximum size of my own ego.
01:01I'm an international pirate.
01:03The leadership at Harvard, I think, found him a little hard to take.
01:09Somebody like Trivers was definitely a brown pig trying to fit into a square hole.
01:15There's never a dull moment around him.
01:18You couldn't get outside. You don't want a hyena eating your ass.
01:21Trivers is one of the really greatest thinkers of evolutionary biology and theory that we have.
01:26Because he gave elegant answers to the fundamental questions of the human condition.
01:32He didn't care about differences between groups.
01:36But really about the universal human nature.
01:43I was a Black Panther enthusiast, really, before I ever met Huey Newton.
01:48The police in our community couldn't possibly be there to protect that property because we own no property.
01:54If I have a theory of self-deception that works for you, and works for you, but doesn't apply to myself, we got a little problem here.
02:05Our brains are vulnerable to a series of logical fallacies.
02:12As living things, as part of a natural world, what kinds of behavior and what kinds of motives and emotions would have been favored by evolution?
02:24Never assume the animal you are studying is as stupid as the one studying it.