In this episode of DAP, Megh, Vatsal, and a friend of the pod, Dr. Harish Prakash, are joined by Dr. Vivek Nityananda.

Dr. Nityananda is an outstanding behavioral ecologist and a senior lecturer at Newcastle University. His multidisciplinary research aims to understand animal behavior by combining psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and ecology.

Join us as Dr. Nityananda discusses his academic journey, motivations, and research on bees, praying mantis, crickets, and other insects. Moreover, he takes us through his fascinating current research that dissects the evolutionary persistence of “overconfidence,” which is also the subject of his new book titled “Beyond Doubt.”

Recommendations:

• Vivek

• The Empire Podcast, William Darlymple and Anita Anand

• The Last of Us

• Harish

• Daryl Dickson

• Vatsal

• Aeons: Surviving Deep Time

• Vettaiyan

• Megh

• Sabrina

• Scent of a Woman