E92: Dr. Paul Turke - Evolutionary Pediatrics and the Role of Kinship Networks
Description
My guest today is Dr. Paul Turke, the world’s first Darwinian pediatrician. He is board-certified and has been practicing pediatrics for 25 years. In addition to his formal medical education, Dr. Turke has done fieldwork in anthropology and demography on the Micronesian islands of Ifaluk and Yap, with a focus on childcare kinship networks. He’s published articles on topics ranging from the evolution of sex, to childhood food allergies, to why Covid-19 is less severe in the young than it is in the elderly. Dr. Turke is also the author of a book called Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics, which uses evolutionary theory and what’s known about our evolutionary history to answer questions that he and other pediatricians hear over and over again from parents seeking advice on how to raise happy, healthy, kind, thoughtful children.
We discussed parenting, evolution, kinship networks, how nothing makes sense except in light of evolution, biology, human evolution, fathers, menopause, senescence (old age), grandparents, homeschooling, socialization, giving back, fertility, demographic transitions, adaptation, children counts, religion, anthropology, cultural and religious evolution, the child being king, indigenous peoples, Micronesia, child rearing, infants, and solidarity.
Episode Details:
Guest Name: Dr. Paul Turke
Website: https://paulturke.com/
Blog: https://paulturke.com/blogs/
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