# Sex and Gender with Dan Conroy-Beam Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/sex-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/sex-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam.md Podcast: [Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019) Published: 2026-04-28T12:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://epthepod.podbean.com/e/complex-interrelations-between-sex-gender-roles-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam-1777316267/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xe4agjxjb5eywqyv/Dan_Conroy-Beam_2_mp3_2_7gxrd.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/episodes/sex-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam Duration seconds: 7582 ## Resource What is sex? What is gender? These are big, weighty questions with not a few societal and political tensions involved. Who better to guide us through this morass than Dan Conroy-Beam (UCSB)? Get ready for a clear-minded, derived-from-first-principles tour of the evolution of sex, sex roles, and gender. Other topics include the culture vs. biology distinction, mentors, friends, what agent based modeling is, and why it's not self-indulgent to model the evolution of sex. More about Dan Conroy-Beam: https://www.danconroybeam.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ifQUQssAAAAJ&hl=en https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/daniel-conroy-beam ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/episodes/sex-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/sex-and-gender-with-dan-conroy-beam.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.