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Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

By Alex Leff, originally published by Human Nature Odyssey

August 28, 2025

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Show Notes

Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature; shouldn’t be surprising – it’s in the name! What’s universal, what’s cultural, and what’s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?

Christopher Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships as well as the book Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. He also hosts the long-running podcast “Tangentially Speaking,” which has been downloaded over 30 million times.

Credits

Theme Music is “Celestial Soda Pop” (Amazon, iTunes, Spotify) by Ray Lynch, from the album: Deep Breakfast. Courtesy Ray Lynch Productions (C)(P) 1984/BMI. All rights reserved.

Featured image: Photo courtesy of Christopher Ryan.

Alex Leff

Join storyteller Alex Leff, creator of the podcast Human Nature Odyssey, on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in.

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