Episode 154: Steve Stewart-Williams - How Evolution Shaped Male And Female Minds
Episode notes
Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor, an evolutionary psychologist, and the author of The Ape that Understood the Universe and his newest book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women
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(00:00) Falling In Love With Evolutionary Psychology
(03:30) Explaining Human Behavior Through Evolution
(06:57) Why Sex Differences Evolved
(10:28) Writing A Book On Controversial Science
(12:21) Average Differences And Statistical Overlap
(15:17) Human Parenting Shrinks Sex Differences
(17:44) Male Interest In Casual Sex
(21:19) Evidence Across Cultures And Species
(25:23) What Men And Women Want
(29:18) Physical Attraction And Resource Preferences
(32:32) Replication Crisis And Scientific Confidence
(34:55) Ashley Madison And Sexual Marketplace Realities
(36:27) Gamma Bias And Delta Bias Explained
(40:18) Aggression Differences Between Men And Women
(44:19) Toddler Violence And Puberty Changes
(47:27) Neuroticism, Sensitivity, And Personality Differences
(52:34) Politics, Academia, And Sex Difference Denial
(57:21) Academic Freedom And Substack Independence
(60:38) Why Truth About Sex Differences Matters
(63:44) Harms Of Exaggerating Sex Differences
(66:27) Harms Of Minimizing Sex Differences
(69:17) Gender Equality Paradox In Scandinavia
(71:34) Let People Be Themselves