How Evolution Shaped Men vs Women

Are men innately more violent? Are women innately more people-focused? What explains gay people, campness, transgenderism? How much of the sex differences are cultural, and how much is hardwired by our evolutionary psychology? The science of the sexes has come a long way. Steve Stewart-Williams is a psychology professor who wrote the groundbreaking book The Ape That Understood the Universe and whose new book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women. Steve joins Josh to explore the science of the sexes, from aggression to promiscuity to parenting, and what recent research reveals about how, and why, men and women behave the way we do. Best Moments: A lot of sex differences that we see seem to appear despite culture rather than because of culture. You find a lot of the same-sex differences we see in humans are also found in other species. In other species, it's not plausible to explain it in terms of socialization or culture. Then when we find that these are the same sex differences in our species, it seems implausible to think that in our case, we have the same differences that you find in other species, but for a completely different re…