Why Are Differences Between Men & Women Being Denied? - Steve Stewart-Williams - #786

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Steve Stewart-Williams is an evolutionary psychologist, a professor and an author. If you follow the thread of evolution long enough, you see that humans are simply a product of adaptations. So why are humans so peculiar? Does everything we do have a rational explanation, or are there aspects of our lives and psychology we have yet to understand? Expect to learn how aliens would view our species if they were observing from above, what most people get wrong about understanding sex differences, Steve’s best explanation for the gender equality paradox, why humans have such strange sexual desires, why men tend to insult their intimate partners, how to deal with the discomfort of learning evolutionary psychology, my spicy new theory on dysgenic gene erosion and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to 32% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get an exclusive discount from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Timestamps: (00:00) The Evolutionary Role of Culture (05:03) We Are Born to Maximise Grandchildren (11:40) What Most People Get Wrong About Sex Differences (16:27) How Men & Women Feel Jealousy Differently (20:15) Why Women Have Concealed Ovulation (26:05) Role of Socialisation in Sex Differences (38:15) Did Ancient Men Actually Do More of the Hunting? (42:57) The Paradox of Gender Equality (49:51) Our Ancestral Mating Setup (59:23) The Bizarre Way to Predict Mating Preferences (01:03:16) The Mutual Mate Choice Model (01:09:24) Why Some Men Insult Intimate Partners (01:12:30) Applying EvPsych Into Daily Life (01:23:03) Do Common Mutations Occur in Different Generations? (01:29:19) Where to Find Steve Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:02.8	My guest today is Steve Stewart Williams.
0:04.8	He's a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia,
0:08.2	and an author.
0:09.7	If you follow the thread of evolution long enough,
0:12.3	you see that humans are simply a product of adaptations.
0:15.6	So how have humans become so peculiar?
0:18.4	Does everything that we do have a rational explanation, or are there still aspect of our lives and psychology that we have yet to understand?
0:25.2	Expect to learn how aliens would view our species if they were observing from above,
0:29.7	what most people get wrong about understanding sex differences.
0:33.6	Steve's best explanations for the gender equality paradox,
0:36.7	why humans have such strange sexual desires,
0:39.8	why men tend to insult their intimate partners,
0:42.4	how to deal with the discomfort of learning evolutionary
0:44.8	psychology, my spicy new theory on dysgenic gene erosion, and much more.
0:52.1	Steve is potentially and is in my list of 100 bucks that you need to read before you die and
1:04.4	completely changed my worldview on an awful lot of things and he is fascinating and
1:10.0	his work is brilliant and this is just so much fun. I've been waiting a long time to bring him on the show.
1:14.7	He is an underground hero. I'm confident that over the next few years you're going to see
1:18.0	so much more of him. Really, really happy to have brought him on and yeah, it just exciting interesting classic modern wisdom episode so
1:25.8	sit back and enjoy trust really is everything when it comes to supplements a lot of
1:30.9	brands may say that their top quality but very few can actually
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