Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots

Aug 9, 2022

39:12

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Victorian Ideals of Men and Women

3min

The Influence of Intelligence on Behavior

3min

The Evolution of Female Passivity

5min

The Inequality of Feminine Tacts

3min

The Unexpected Dominance of Primates

3min

The Importance of Sisterhoods

4min

The Plasticity of Sex

2min

The Importance of Choice in Our Daily Behavior

2min

10.

The Myth of Polyandras

4min

11.

The Power of Humor

2min

12.

How to Tell Someone They Have Their Facts Wrong

2min

13.

How to Stop a Compulsive Talker

2min

14.

Carl Bergstrom and the Crusade for What He Calls Bullshit

2min

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.