David C. Geary - The Evolution Of Sex Differences In The Brain & Vulnerability

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Talking points: evolution, psychology, relationships, sexuality The field of evolutionary psychology has been on my mind a lot lately, but it can be hard to separate the real science from the stuff with an agenda. To that end, I sat down with David C. Geary to dig into the basics, and how even a little knowledge about things like sexual dimorphism and intrasexual aggression can bring a better understanding to modern relationships. Listen to this one if you want a solid intro to the existence and effects evolution might have on selecting a partner, friendships, overall culture, and more. (00:00:00) - Intro, defining evolutionary psychology, and what it has to offer in the context of modern relationships (00:04:59) - The main pillars of sexual selection (00:09:01) - Describing human sexual dimorphism, brain differences, and possible evolutionary benefits (00:21:07) - Why boys tend to be more interested in how objects work in space (00:28:22) - Why would men have evolved a larger lung capacity? (00:30:38) - We don’t compete for mates in the same ways anymore, but are attraction cues the same? (00:35:06) - Defining intrasexual aggression (00:44:28) - The evolutionary case for vulnerability (00:49:28) - David’s take on modern dating (00:56:29) - What an evolutionary vulnerability really means (01:02:25) - How are dating and relationships going to shift in the future? David C. Geary is a cognitive scientist and evolutionary psychologist with interests in mathematical cognition and learning as well as the biological bases of sex differences. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California at Riverside, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Missouri, first at the Rolla campus and then in Columbia. Dr. Geary is currently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and a Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program. Dr. Geary has written four sole-authored books; Children's mathematical development (1994), Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences (1998, second edition, 2010, third edition 2021), The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence (2005), and Evolution of vulnerability: Implications for sex differences in health and development (2015), as well as one co-authored book, Sex differences: Summarizing more than a century of scientific research (Ellis et al., 2008). Connect with David -Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bVcpj60AAAAJ -Quillette: https://quillette.com/author/david-c-geary/ -Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/male-female Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | and yes, even TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Dave, welcome to the Man Talk Show. How are you doing today?
0:05.9	I'm doing well. How about you, Connor?
0:08.0	I'm doing good. Yeah, I'm doing good. It's like, you know, it's the very beginning of the year.
0:12.2	You're my first interview of 2024, so here we go, which is great. And I've been running the podcast for eight years now.
0:20.4	And we finally just joined a network,
0:25.1	a podcast network, which was not a thing when I started running the show back in like
0:30.2	2015 and I didn't even know what a podcast was. So what's the network? It's called Q code. And so they specialize in a bunch of different stuff.
0:39.9	They have like these big produce shows where they bring in celebrities and it's kind of like
0:44.1	an old school radio show that used to hear on the radio before there was TV and they'll have
0:51.1	these elaborate scripts.
0:52.7	But they're also getting into wellness podcasts and
0:55.7	therapy-based podcasts and podcasts like mine. And so it's a very, it's very interesting
1:00.5	network to be a part of. I think they're doing some interesting things. And the guy that
1:04.8	started it actually helped to start Apple Podcasts. So he knows, he knows a couple of things about podcasts. So hopefully that
1:12.5	will that will serve our show well. Let's start. I wanted to start at a high level. There's a
1:16.9	bunch of things that I wanted to get in today. We're going to talk about a number of things,
1:20.4	including the evolutionary case for something like vulnerability. But I want to just start at a high
1:27.3	level so that all of the
1:28.4	listeners were all on the same page. So in a basic way, what are the benefits of something like
1:35.5	sex differences evolving in the first place? Why does something like sex differences even
1:40.3	evolve in the first place? Well, they typically evolve based on what's called sexual selection,
1:48.3	either competition with members of the same sex, like males beating at each other,
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