I recently sat down with Australian boxer and podcaster Tiffanee Cook for an episode of her Roll with the Punches podcast. We had a great conversation about a wide range of topics related to my book A Billion Years of Sex Differences. Among other things, we discussed:
How I fell in love with evolutionary psychology and the science of sex differences
The origins of occupational gender gaps
The many causes of the gender pay gap
Why dating apps often make it harder to find love rather than easier
Whether mental-health problems are discrete disorders or arbitrarily defined segments of a spectrum of symptoms
Sex differences in mental-health problems
The possible origins of the trans phenomenon and non-binary identification
The episode is available on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Hope you enjoy it!
If you want to dive deeper into these topics, you can pick up a copy of A Billion Years of Sex Differences here.
Follow me on Twitter/X for more psychology, evolution, and science.
Upgrade to a Paid Subscription
I love writing The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter - but it’s a lot of work! If you’d like to help keep it going, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. You’ll get:
Full access to all new posts and the archive - including material I don’t want to share publicly yet
Full access to exclusive features such as my “12 Things Everyone Should Know” posts, Linkfests, and other regular features
Full access to excerpts from my book A Billion Years of Sex Differences
The ability to post comments and interact with the N3 Newsletter community
On top of that, you’ll be supporting my efforts to spread important ideas and carve out a space for free thought and non-politicized science.
Thanks!
Steve
Related Reading from the Archive
12 Things Everyone Should Know About Evolutionary Psychology
This is the latest post in my “12 Things Everyone Should Know” series. You can access the full collection here.
A Billion Years of Sex Differences
I recently gave a professorial lecture at my university, focused on some of my theoretical work on the evolution of human sex differences. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the lecture.
Sex Differences in Mental-Health Problems in Childhood and Adolescence
I wasn’t planning to post again till the weekend, but I just came across this fascinating graph in a new paper in JAMA Psychiatry. It shows sex differences in the prevalence of a range of mental-health difficulties in people aged 5 to 24 years.