NonzeroClips | Debating the Sexual Psychology of Men and Women | Robert Wright & Agustín Fuentes | The Wright Show @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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0:00 Disavowing the naturalistic fallacy
03:16 Why “sex” may not mean what you think it means
8:33 Did evolution make women “choosier” about sex partners than men?
19:30 Haggling over the price of sperm and eggs
25:41 Agustín: Empirical studies complicate evolutionary psychology’s theoretical models
36:01 The evolutionary significance of non-reproductive sex
47:40 Why are males bigger than females in our species?
55:28 Looking at pornography (for insights into human evolution)
1:06:09 Are male and female sexual jealousy systematically different?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Agustín Fuentes (Princeton, Why We Believe). Record August 17, 2021.
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0:00 Disavowing the naturalistic fallacy
03:16 Why “sex” may not mean what you think it means
8:33 Did evolution make women “choosier” about sex partners than men?
19:30 Haggling over the price of sperm and eggs
25:41 Agustín: Empirical studies complicate evolutionary psychology’s theoretical models
36:01 The evolutionary significance of non-reproductive sex
47:40 Why are males bigger than females in our species?
55:28 Looking at pornography (for insights into human evolution)
1:06:09 Are male and female sexual jealousy systematically different?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Agustín Fuentes (Princeton, Why We Believe). Record August 17, 2021.
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