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Oh, wow. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast episode 55, Sex and Gender Part 2.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So this episode continues on directly from the previous episode, as you might have guessed,

so strongly recommend that you listen to that first.

In this second part of the two-part series on sex and gender,

we're going to be talking about the hormonal and other biological differences between males and females

and the extent to which they can explain different differences in behavior and attitudes and so on

between males and females. And then we will move on to applying some of the techniques and insights

that we have gained from the first and second parts to discuss more specific issues, including

occupational segregation,

representation of women in math and stem fields, and differences in emotion and conversations,

the way in which men and women engage conversation.

So let's jump straight into it and start talking about hormones.

So I don't think we've really talked about hormones on this podcast before.

Hormones are just regulatory chemicals that are produced and distributed throughout the body

that have a wide variety of biological consequences.

They're generally involved in regulating things like metabolism and heart rate and growth of tissues

and all sorts of things.

There's an enormous variety of functions that hormones perform.

The system that most

relates to hormones is called the endocrine system, and I'll do a podcast on that. I'll do a podcast on that at some point.

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