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So we are back here with Colin Wright,

who had a wonderful conversation with us in our full episode,

and I actually wanted to continue on with something.

Stella you had asked this really interesting question about why is it so hard to imply or

indicate that men and women may have different behavioral traits.

And Colin, you were talking about things like height or face shape or like face recognition.

It's like really obvious to us that there's variation but it's kind of like

the just halt of something like we understand what people mean when they say that and

I was thinking about like maybe the reason why people are so offended by this like behavioral differences

argument is that height is totally biologically determined it is not

culturally modifiable except for now they do have like these leg lengthening surgeries which is another story right but like when it comes to personality or behavior like those kinds of social traits, there are lots of people that believe that we are

molded into our behaviors and thoughts. So like I'm just wondering, as someone who studied animal behavior like something I think

about a lot is clearly we're mammals like we have all kinds of biological processes

that are happening to us whether we like it or not. But for some reason a lot of people

seem to think like the biology stops here and like from like in our brains we're not impacted at all

by our mammalian backgrounds.

So can you talk a little bit about that?

I think it's interesting.

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