The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)
7/11/202655 min
How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life?
Drawing on a century of research and a billion years of evolution, Steve Stewart-Williams explains why many sex differences appear despite socialization, not because of it; why in our mating and parenting patterns, humans are more like the average bird than the average mammal; and why sex differences are sometimes a sign of societal health rather than injustice.
Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. His first book, Darwin, God, and the Meaning of Life, was published in 2010. His second, The Ape That Understood the Universe, was published in 2018. His new book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences.
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Michael Shermer· Host0:28
Hey everybody, it's Michael Shermer. Time for another episode of The Michael Shermer Show. Here we are again live in, in person in the UK. I'm at the How The Light Gets In Festival. My guest today is Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams, also here at the festival speaking. He's a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia. Before taking up his current position, he was a senior lecturer at Swansea University, and before that he spent two years as a postdoc fellow at the McMaster University in Canada, working in the lab of Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, epic big researchers in the area of crime and human aggression. He did his PhD in psychology and philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. His second book, The Ape That Understood the Universe, was published in September 2018, and an audiobook version is now available, and revised paperback edition released the following year with a forward by me, the host of this show. [laughs] Steve, nice to see you. How are you?
Steve Stewart-Williams· Guest1:26
Nice to see you, Michael.
Michael Shermer· Host1:27
All right, great. It's great. Your, um, new book