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Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots

Aug 9, 2022
39:12
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
The Victorian Ideals of Men and Women
02:08 • 3min
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3
The Influence of Intelligence on Behavior
04:48 • 3min
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4
The Evolution of Female Passivity
07:38 • 5min
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5
The Inequality of Feminine Tacts
12:22 • 3min
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6
The Unexpected Dominance of Primates
15:31 • 3min
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7
The Importance of Sisterhoods
18:33 • 4min
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8
The Plasticity of Sex
22:08 • 2min
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9
The Importance of Choice in Our Daily Behavior
24:04 • 2min
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10
The Myth of Polyandras
26:17 • 4min
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11
The Power of Humor
30:38 • 2min
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12
How to Tell Someone They Have Their Facts Wrong
32:59 • 2min
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How to Stop a Compulsive Talker
34:33 • 2min
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Carl Bergstrom and the Crusade for What He Calls Bullshit
36:37 • 2min
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Are men more fit to lead, and more interested in sex than women? Lucy Cooke takes on these myths and more, telling Alan how she visited women biologists around the world who have studied species as different as songbirds, lions and bonobos. What she discovered is eye-opening – especially if you’re a man.

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