Trojan Migration? The 210th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

In this 210th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss hypotheses about the border situation. Having just returned from Panama, Bret hypothesizes that there are two immigrations happening: the migration driven by the pursuit of greater economic opportunities in the United States, which includes people from all over the world, and a lot of families; and a second, cryptic migration which includes mostly people from China, of military age, heavily skewed towards men. He also reviews a hypothesis from some years back, about the effect of the one-child policy in China, taken in concert with the tendency to prefer boys. We then discuss neurogenesis in pregnant mice; and also the “diaper spa” being opened in New Hampshire, which is only possible because we have stopped allowing ourselves to critique anti-social and anti-societal tendencies.

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Mentioned in this episode:

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Chaker et al 2023. Pregnancyresponsive pools of adult neural stem cells for transient neurogenesis in mothers. Science 382(6673)958963

What’s a diaper spa?

The diaper spa

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(04:10) Sponsors

(11:00) Hypothesis Vs theory

(13:40) Two migrations

(22:00) IOM organization

(24:30) Chinese migration

(28:55) Trip through Darién Gap

(35:30) Demographics

(40:20) One child policy in China

(46:30) 70/80s migration

(50:40) Bret's hypotheses on migrants

(01:02:05) Chinese secrecy

(01:06:00) Final hypothesis on foreign corruption

(01:09:40) Something cool around neurogenesis

(01:17:50) Diaper spa

(01:42:25) Wrap up