Yascha Mounk at his own website:
Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and human psychology. You are now out with a book that speaks more specifically about sex differences and how those are rooted in biology. Let’s go through some of the sex differences that the literature establishes relatively decisively.
One way you break this down is to say some sex differences are just completely dimorphic—women give birth, men do not—while others are more statistical variances. Tell us a little bit about how to think about the kinds of sex differences and what some of the most common ones are.
Steve Stewart-Williams: The new book is called A Billion Years of Sex Differences. I start by listing what I call the standard issue sex differences: a list of very well-established sex differences in our species. As you say, they range from the very large and strictly dimorphic and categorical, to the not-so-large—at the other end, just statistical differences, relatively modest discrepancies in the average scores of massively overlapping distributions.
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