Sex in The Brain | David Geary

Prof David Geary is a cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist interested in mathematical learning and sex differences. He is currently a Curators’ Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:44 Why do we have sexes and what are they? 3:20 Could we have more sexes?  4:10 The evolutionary logic behind two sexes 5:55 What is sexual selection and why does it lead to sex differences? 7:05 Differential parental investment strategies 9:20 Humans aren’t as unique as we like to think 10:27 Bo poses a theory about sexual selection  13:07 Questioning Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating Mind paradigm  16:24 Lineage enhancement  18:22 The Danny DeVito problem 19:22 Status versus resources 22:02 Sex differences in the mind 24:45 Most important average differences 27:10 Dodging and throwing objects 31:18 The patriarchy critique  34:23 Feminism as an elite female ideology 35:58 Trans & the new gender ideology 40:00 Natal girls identifying as transgender 42:58 Is transgender a real category? 49:20 The stupidity of children 51:20 What about transgender suppression?  53:00 Bonus questions