The Hello everyone watching and listening. Today I'm speaking with

researcher, professor and author, Dr Sarah Hill. We discuss her new landmark book,

This is your brain on birth control,

the surprising science of women, hormones,

and the law of unintended consequences.

We break down and analyze sex-based differences in regret,

competition, and academic striving.

The balance between life exposure and safeguarding when raising a child,

the practice of mate choice copying among women, and why our hormones are a foundational part not just of our physical

makeup but of who we are most deeply and who we have the potential to become.

So Sarah and who we have the potential to become.

So Sarah, I thought for years that the 20th century would basically be remembered for three things.

The hydrogen bomb, the transistor, the microchip, and the pill, and that the pill was

perhaps the most revolutionary of the three,

and that it was also equivalent to a speciation mutation,

that that's how profound it is. Now the first chapter of your book,

this is your brain on birth control, is what is a woman, and that's become a

trope and a satirical, and what would, a satirical cliche, and people laugh at the fact that it's even being posed,

but I actually don't think it's that funny because I think that with the advent of hypothetically 100% reliable birth control,

the question of what is a woman actually becomes a real question.

Because a woman who has voluntary control

over reproductive function is not the same creature

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