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#109— Biology and Culture

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Women's Reproductive Strategy Changes Everything

The fact that women have control over their reproduction changes the darwinian logic of sex difference, or going will gotha change. Women do not have a reproductive strategy that allows them to produce huge numbers of offspring in a lifetime. Males are much more likely to be a to gamble in a particular way and to gamble productively. We should democratize these things? We should hand them off. Everybody should begin to see their own well being tied up in the larger lineage level questions. And we should also figure out what the message of male wisdom is with respect to risk. Anybody who wants it should should have it available to them. But we shouldn't expect it to magically appear

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