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)