#238 - Frans de Waal on DIFFERENT - a podcast by Books on Pod

Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal chats with Trey Elling about DIFFERENT: GENDER THROUGH THE EYES OF A PRIMATOLOGIST. Topics include:

• The reason for focusing mostly on chimps and bonobos (0:55)


• Whether young primates make gender-neutral decisions when playing (1:42)


• The difference between gender and biological sex (6:42)


• The effects of raising a genderless child on equality (9:21)


• Emotional differences between primate males and females (12:44)


• Bonobos as evidence that male dominance is not pre-destined (17:26)


• Bonobos' erotic tendencies (19:59)


• Frans' "Faces and Behinds" study (22:54)


• Female sex drive being exploited in pigeon racing (26:43)


• The biggest difference between make and female sex drive (29:46)


• Do primates rape? (31:57)


• How the 'alpha male' ideal has been misconstrued over time (36:28)


• Why it takes about one second for us to determine another person's biological sex (39:28)


• Are primates similar to humans regarding a desire to compete against the same sex? (40:58)


• Why primate and human males tend to get over conflict quicker than females (45:02)


• Whether primate males step up to tend to babies if a female isn't around (47:15)


• Humans, primates, and other animals having sex with no reproductive potential (49:51)

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