{"id":3515781,"date":"2025-08-28T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3515781"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:58:02","slug":"human-nature-odyssey-sex-at-dawn-civilized-to-death-and-tangentially-speaking-with-christopher-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-08-28\/human-nature-odyssey-sex-at-dawn-civilized-to-death-and-tangentially-speaking-with-christopher-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death,  and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3515781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/a209e7d1-3aad-4c73-a173-b84a891831ad\/HNC_Christopher_Ryan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/a209e7d1-3aad-4c73-a173-b84a891831ad\/HNC_Christopher_Ryan.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/a209e7d1-3aad-4c73-a173-b84a891831ad\/HNC_Christopher_Ryan.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-button-wrapper gb-button-wrapper-af35d9a5\">\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-736fa41c gb-button-text btn res-btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0OCr2WUCRcRStp8GflvTqF\">Listen on Spotify<\/a>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-f8db5292 gb-button-text res-btn-yellow\" href=\"\/human-nature-odyssey\/hno-episodes\/\">See all episodes<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b18365bc\">\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-0f710104 gb-headline-text\">Show Notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature; shouldn\u2019t be surprising &#8211; it\u2019s in the name! What\u2019s universal, what\u2019s cultural, and what\u2019s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Ryan is the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <em>Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships<\/em> as well as the book <em>Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress<\/em>. He also hosts the long-running podcast &#8220;Tangentially Speaking,&#8221; which has been downloaded over 30 million times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-56563437\">\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a2455810 gb-headline-text\">Credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Theme Music is \u201cCelestial Soda Pop\u201d (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/music\/player\/albums\/B000QQXURI\"><em>Amazon<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/celestial-soda-pop\/3242445?i=3242425\"><em>iTunes<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2THDVIVytLuGX7S7UghuC1?si=20ea63807bba401f\"><em>Spotify<\/em><\/a><em>) by Ray Lynch, from the album: Deep Breakfast. Courtesy Ray Lynch Productions (C)(P) 1984\/BMI. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What\u2019s universal, what\u2019s cultural, and what\u2019s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3515783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213524,252037,251746,79720,213535],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-picks","category-human-nature-odyssey","category-podcasts","category-society","category-society-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515832,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515781\/revisions\/3515832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}