This episode is with Frans De Waal. He is a professor in Emory  University's psychology department and the Director of the Living Links  Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is the author  of several popular books like 'Chimpanzee politics', The age of empathy'  and 'The bonobo and the atheist'. His latest book is 'Different: gender  through the eyes of a primatologist'.

In this conversation we talk about  evolution of sex and gender in humans, primates, and mammals.  

More about Frans's work: https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/people/dewaal.shtml 

List of his books: https://www.amazon.com/Frans-De-Waal/e/B000APOHE0/ref=aufs_dp_mata_dsk  

Timestamps: 

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:00:54 Primatologist's take on gender    

00:06:54 Biases in human cultures  

00:08:15 Sex and gender in the society  

00:10:58 Difference between sex and gender   

00:15:11 Toxic masculinity 

00:16:48 Do sapiens have male dominated societies? 

00:20:20 Power struggles in the societies  

00:21:39 Violence in the societies  

00:23:47 Violence in the bonobos 

00:25:10 Can we decrease the violence? 

00:28:19 Can nurture control nature? 

00:28:50 Rapes in primates   

00:31:15 Friendship, cooperation and peacemaking  

00:35:39 Monogamy in primates  

00:37:06 Same-sex sex  

00:39:31 Transgenders 

00:45:23 Maternal instincts and xenophobia   

00:52:37 How far nurture can change nature?   

01:00:07 Thank you!