The Good Fight

Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature

The Good Fight

Show Notes

Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams examine what science reveals about biological and psychological differences between men and women.

Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of Psychology at the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia campus and runs The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter. His latest book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Steve Stewart-Williams discuss why women and men are more similar than is often thought and what the real sex differences between men and women are, from casual sex to career choices.

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