Christopher Ryan (born February 13, 1962) is an American author best known for co-authoring the book ''

Sex at Dawn ''Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality'' is a 2010 book about the evolution of human mating systems by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. In opposition to what the authors see as the "standard narrative" of human sexual evo ...

'' (2010).

Biography

He received a

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

in English and American literature in 1984, and an

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

and

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in psychology from

Saybrook University Saybrook University is a private university in Pasadena, California. It was founded in 1971 by Eleanor Camp Criswell and others. It offers postgraduate education with a focus on humanistic psychology. It features low residency, master's, and d ...

, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist

Stanley Krippner Stanley Krippner (born October 4, 1932) is an American psychologist and parapsychologist. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1954 and M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1961) degrees from Northwestern University. From 1 ...

, a

humanistic psychologist Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that arose in the mid-20th century in answer to two theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B. F. Skinner's behaviorism. Thus, Abraham Maslow established the need for a "third fo ...

, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jürgen W. Kremer. Ryan gave a

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titled ''Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?'' in February 2013, contributes to ''

Psychology Today ''Psychology Today'' is an American media organization with a focus on psychology and human behavior. It began as a bimonthly magazine, which first appeared in 1967. The ''Psychology Today'' website features therapy and health professionals direct ...

'' and hosts a popular

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

called ''Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan''. In 2018-2019, Ryan published '' Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity'', also known as, '' Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress'' (), as well as the ebooks: '' Tangentially Reading'' () and ''

Tangentially Talking Drugs In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More ...

'' () based on his popular podcast, ''

Tangentially Speaking In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More ...

''. He is married to his sometime collaborator and co-author of ''

'', Cacilda Jethá.

References

External links

ChrisRyanPHD.com
Ryan's official website
''Tangentially Speaking'' Podcast
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''Tangentially Speaking''
on Reddit
PsychologyToday.com ''Civilized To Death'', Why everything's amazing, but nobody's happy
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