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Heather Heying teaching

Author. Evolutionary Biologist. Professor in Exile.

My new book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century (co-authored with Bret Weinstein) will be out in September. Pre-order HERE.

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About Heather

I am an evolutionary biologist. I apply the tool kit of evolutionary theory to problems large and small, some seemingly intractable, some possibly trivial—what to eat, how to teach and parent and be an upstanding citizen, what to avoid, and what to seek.

I experience the world through adventure, travel, sport and game. My evolutionary biologist husband Bret Weinstein, our children, and our pet carnivorans, often join in the fun. I seek speed and risk and thrill, and also comfort and warmth and solitude.

The scientific process is a main theme in my teaching, and I strive to bring it to the foreground of students’ worldviews, so that they become comfortable generating hypotheses for the patterns that they observe around them in the world, and are able to live investigated, conscious lives.

I will gladly spend hours watching parrots klatsch at a clay lick, lizards hunt katydids, and squirrel monkeys do anything. I enjoy wandering around foreign cities. I enjoy wandering around natural places even more–the Washington coast in Spring during the shorebird migration, neotropical cloud forests with squirrel cuckoos and colorful bursts of tanagers, the San Juan Islands, the Amazon.

Follow me on twitter: @HeatherEHeying

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide To The 21st Century

About The Book

Praise for A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide:

"I have never read such a bold, well-researched, and succinct exploration of the puzzling predicament we find ourselves in. Anyone who wonders why the most comfortable society in history—our own—has such astronomical rates of depression, anxiety and poor health will find abundant answers in A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century."

Sebastian Junger
author of War, Tribe, and Freedom

"Husband and wife team Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying bring their vast knowledge of evolutionary biology to bear on the problems that beset us. Wide-ranging and illuminating, A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century posits an intriguing, surprising, and profound view of human nature."

Jordan B. Peterson
author of Beyond Order, 12 Rules for Life and Maps of Meaning

"Bret and Heather are highly regarded evolutionary biologists, very clear thinkers and communicators, and as attested to by their notoriety from the madness that their school put them through, they value scientific truth over political correctness."

Robert Sapolsky
author of Behave and A Primate's Memoir

Interviews and Podcasts

    Bridget Phetasy

    Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

    Heather Heying is a scientist, educator and author. She and Bridget discuss the possibility of a vaccine passport and why they’re so unset...Learn More
    Meghan Murphy

    The Same Drugs with host Meghan Murphy: gender identity, Twitter, and the lab leak theory

    Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist who was a professor Evergreen College until she and her husband, Bret Weinstein, were pushed to ...Learn More
    savage minds

    Savage Minds with host Julian Vigo

    Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist, educator, and author who co-hosts a popular weekly livestream with husband Bret Weins...Learn More
    Biological Woman's Hour

    Biological Woman’s Hour with host Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker)

    Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist. She applies.. “the tool kit of evolutionary theory to problems large and small, some seem...Learn More

Articles and Op-eds

    Trojan horse

    How “woke” activism took over universities and descended into street riots

    Nonsense becomes dogma, «woke» activists turn into left-wing authoritarians: the principles of the Enlightenment are collapsing faster tha...Learn More
    bird

    Areo: Sex, Love, and Sexual Autism

    Sex came first. It arrived before any concept of self or other, before there was care for anyone at all. And certainly before love. Sexual r...Learn More
    Irreversible Damage

    The Torment and Tragedy of Teenage Girls: A LetterWiki conversation with Abigal Shrier

    Allow me to start 500 million years ago. Our ancestors have been reproducing sexually, with two sexes, for at least that long. Male and fema...Learn More
    riot

    14 True Things: Observations about protest, race, police and democracy in America

    All of these things can be true. All of these things are true: 1. Systemic racism has a long history throughout the world, and the...Learn More
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