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The Dissenter · 2025-07-18 · 83 min · 13,539 words

#1125 Daniel Fessler: Physical Formidability, Male Muscularity, Pathogen-Avoidance & More

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Daniel Fessler. He is Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. And today we're talking about topics like physical formidability, male muscularity, moral parochialism, and moral condemnation. Disgust an ideology and some other related topics. So Doctor Fessler, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thank you. Thanks for having me here. So let's start with the topic of physical formidability. Uh to start off with what is physical formidability and how do you study it?

So um All we mean by physical formidability is um Uh Which of two individuals would win a fight? Um when

The only factors involve their physical aspects. So Across many many species a principal determinant of this kind of w winning

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