Our Lives Matter S1E42: The Environmental Crisis
The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions. We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want. When you buy…
Our Lives Matter S1E41: The Biology of Patriarchy
Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it. How does it start? …
Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships
Men and women have many different feelings about relationships. Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common. If men keep those in mind, it’s much…
Our Lives Matter S1E39: The Biology of Consent
Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex. Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women…
Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault
Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships. That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women…
Our Lives Matter S1E37: The Mathematics of Gender Differences
Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are. That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women. That means there…
Our Lives Matter S1E36: The Biology of Attraction
Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically. That means we have different instincts for reproducing. Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to…
Our Lives Matter S1E35: The Biology of Gender Differences
Men and women reproduce differently. That’s why we have different reproduction organs. That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce. The differences in…
Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution
Our species originated in Africa. At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from…
Our Lives Matter S1E33: Human Universals
Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures. That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species. That gives…