Why Are Differences Between Men & Women Being Denied? - Steve Stewart-Williams - #786

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Steve Stewart-Williams. He's a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia and an author. If you follow the thread of evolution long enough, you see that humans are simply a product of adaptations. So how have humans become so peculiar? Does everything that we do have a rational explanation or are there still aspects of our lives and psychology that we have yet to understand? Expect to learn how aliens would view our species if they were observing from above, what most people get wrong about understanding sex differences, Steve's best explanations for the gender equality paradox, why humans have such strange sexual desires, why men tend to insult their intimate partners, how to deal with the discomfort of learning evolutionary psychology, my spicy new theory on dysgenic gene erosion, and much more. Steve is potentially one of my favorite authors of all time and his book, The Ape Who Understood the Universe is in my list of 100 books that you need to read before you die and completely changed my worldview on an awful lot of things and he is fascinating and his work is brilliant and this is just so much fun. I've been waiting a long time to bring him on the show. He is an underground hero. I'm confident that over the next few years, you're going to see so much more of him. Really, really happy to have brought him on. And yeah, it's just exciting, interesting, classic Modern Wisdom episode. So sit back and enjoy. You might have heard me say that I took my testosterone level from 495 to 1006 last year. And two of the supplements I used throughout that were Fidogeoagrestis and Tonkat Ali. 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