Thornhill has also suggested that pathogen defense could help explain civil and ethnic warfare, homicide, patriarchal family structures, and social suppression of female sexuality. In 2021, Thornhill appeared as a guest on episode 38 of season 4 of the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast entitled: Death, Disease, and Politics. There, he discussed his research and views with the host (Peterson) about a range of topics, including attractiveness, Thornhill's parasite-stress theory, and the “critical role that infectious disease plays in humanity, IQ, sex, religion, and conservatism”. References External links ResearchGate profile Living people 1944 births 21st-century American biologists American entomologists Evolutionary psychologists Human Behavior and Evolution Society Writers from Alabama University of Michigan faculty University of Michigan alumni Auburn University alumni