SAPIENS host Jen Shannon speaks with Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University, to unpack his insight that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “biosocial” phenomenon. They also discuss his recent suggestion that the virus “is not the only hazard to human health and well-being” right now.

Recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fuentes is a decorated anthropologist and an author of many books. His latest is Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being.

For more from Fuentes, an excerpt of Why We Believe is available at SAPIENS.org: “How Did Belief Evolve?” Also on SAPIENS.org, he hosted the debate, “Why Are Humans Violent?”

Read a transcript of this episode here.