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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 2H 6M

Sex and Gender with Dan Conroy-Beam

from Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · host Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof

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  

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