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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where

Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless

commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this week's episode. To hear the full

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My guest this week is David C. Giri.

David is a curator's distinguished professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences

and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri.

I'll be talking to him about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes

have been growing and becoming more salient in Western societies.

A theory explained in a Quillette article he co-authored with Lewis G. Halsey entitled,

The Great Divergence.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

I'd like to start by talking about your co-authored piece, The Great Divergence.

And in that you talk about not only the fact that there are these very clear, on average,

differences between men and women in psychology, behavior, preferences, etc.

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