I recently joined Donal O’Doherty on his Collective Wisdom podcast to discuss my new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences.
We explored what science tells us about psychological differences between men and women, where those differences come from, and why the topic has become so politically charged.
Here’s some of what we discussed:
The largest sex differences in our species, and why most psychological differences are much smaller
Why men and women are both choosy about long-term partners
Mutual mate choice and human equivalents of the peacock’s tail
Sex differences in STEM and whether they’re necessarily a problem
Dating apps, incels, and evolutionary mismatch
Whether there’s any such thing as objective morality
You can watch the full episode on Donal’s Collective Wisdom YouTube channel.
If you want to dive deeper into the issues we discussed, you can buy a copy of A Billion Years of Sex Differences here.
If you want to check out more of my podcast appearances, you can find them here.
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