What's the Order, the Kind of Take Home Messages?

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Joroge: What are the take home messages wise, understanding this hormon important? I'm just going to give an anecdote about my relationship with my husband. He's a british philosopher who is real just nowhere near as emotional as most people are. So i did some research, and yes, brits are less emotionally expressive than most everybody else. They're more stoic. That has some evidence behind it. It might not really be philosophy, usually but you know what i mean. And that 90 % of tho, 95 rre moralistic in nature. This was sort of a profound insight for me.

In episode 204, Michael Shermer speaks with codirector of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Carole Hooven, PhD about testosterone. While most people agree that sex differences in human behavior exist, they disagree about the reasons. But the science is clear: testosterone is a potent force in human society, driving the bodies and behavior of the sexes apart. But, as Hooven shows in T, it does so in concert with genes and culture to produce a vast variety of male and female behavior. And, crucially, the fact that many sex differences are grounded in biology provides no support for restrictive gender norms or patriarchal values. In understanding testosterone, we better understand ourselves and one another — and how we might build a fairer, safer society.