Battle of the Sexes
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Professor Sophie Scott, Professor Steve Jones and comedian Sara Pascoe. They will be tackling the age old battle of the sexes, and asking whether men really are from Mars, and women really are from Venus? Probably not, according to Brian as Venus is too hot! Moving on from the pedantry of physics, they'll be asking whether the divide between men and women is based on a fundamental difference in our genetics, in our brain function, or is it all down to our upbringing. Let the battle commence. Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox and in the moment you're going to be hearing me saying hello |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox because this is the longer version of the infinite monkey cage |
| 0:08.9 | This is the podcast version which is normally somewhere between 12 and 17 minutes longer than that that is broadcast on radio |
| 0:16.6 | For it's got all the bits that we couldn't fit in with Brian over explaining ideas of physics |
| 0:21.4 | I do object to the use of the word longer though because that's obviously a frame specific |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, we haven't got time to deal with that because even in the longer version we can't have a longer intro |
| 0:30.0 | Can we just let them listen? I don't have an idea coming to have a podcast version of this intro to the podcast |
| 0:34.9 | Which can be longer than the intro to the podcast? |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, and then we can have a podcast version of the podcast in just a podcast |
| 0:39.8 | I'll be started by now, but if you're still hearing this and then what's going on? |
| 0:42.4 | And then we can have a podcast podcast podcast version of the podcast and then |
| 0:45.2 | Hello, I'm Robin in and I'm Frank ox now it may come as some surprise to our listeners that both Brian and I are male |
| 0:51.4 | Despite the fact that when we walk around together a lot of people come up to me and say oh you've got a lovely daughter |
| 0:56.5 | Oh |
| 0:59.2 | Today we're talking about the biological battle of the sexes with a particular focus on genetics and neuroscience |
| 1:04.8 | How did sex evolve and what are the evolutionary advantages that it confers? |
| 1:09.7 | Whilst popular culture might suggest that there are differences between the brains of men and women is this distinction |
| 1:14.9 | supported by science for instance |
| 1:17.3 | It's a widely held belief that men are better at reading maps whereas women are better at actually getting to the correct |
| 1:23.6 | Destination because they don't spend the whole time going oh no where I'm going. I know where I'm going |
| 1:27.4 | I don't think it is left. Well, I don't know why there's a quarry here |
| 1:32.7 | So for the show Brian has been researching by reading men from Mars and women are from Venus. I'm gonna stop you there |
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