{"podcast":{"title":"The Michael Shermer Show","slug":"the-michael-shermer-show-444422","podcast_index_feed_id":444422,"rss_url":"https://sciencesalon.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/3/e/3/63e344572bed54e488c4a68c3ddbc4f2/The_Michael_Shermer_Show_logo_2023.jpg","author":"Michael Shermer","episode_count":631,"summary":"The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T18:19:28.702187+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422"},"episode":{"title":"The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)","slug":"the-truth-about-sex-differences-steve-stewart-williams","published_at":"2026-07-11T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-truth-about-sex-differences-steve-stewart-williams","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/sciencesalon/mss624_Steve_Stewart-Williams_2026_07_11.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss624_Steve_Stewart-Williams_2026_07_11.mp3?dest-id=513978","summary":"How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life? Drawing on a century of research and a billion years of evolution, Steve Stewart-Williams explains why many sex differences appear despite socialization, not because of it; why in our mating and parenting patterns, humans are more like the average bird than the average mammal; and why sex differences are sometimes a sign of societal health rather than injustice. Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. His first book, Darwin, God, and the Meaning of Life , was published in 2010. His second, The Ape That Understood the Universe , was published in 2018. His new book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences .","meta_description":"How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life? Drawing on a century of research and a billion years o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3303,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/episodes/the-truth-about-sex-differences-steve-stewart-williams/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-truth-about-sex-differences-steve-stewart-williams.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}