Dr. Wendy Walsh
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teeny little chestnuts, big hulking bodies, and very monogamous and very paternalistic, right?
So what homo sapiens have, which is fascinating, is the full gamut.
We got the big bald boys on the playing fields, and then when women wonder why their professional athlete husband fools around on them,
look at the testosterone pumping in his body, right?
And then you've got guy, the small ball, great guys who probably make fabulous husbands.
Maybe not great rocking and rolling for a one night stand, but great husbands.
We literally have it all.
We also have the widest range of paternal investment
offspring of any primate so in human beings one guy's investment in his kids could just be one teaspoon of sperm and he's done another guy's investment could be a baby wearing softball throwing carpool driving doting dad and we have everything in between and I always tell women shop for a father if you want to reproduce don't shop for a good-looking boyfriend that's beautiful
Yeah.
And the more sexual.
So I have a podcast called Mating Matters.
And one episode is called The Trouble with Testosterone.
And I cite a lot of studies that show that higher testosterone men tend to cheat more, have less empathy and compassion, have trouble falling in love.
And yeah, get in bar fights.
They're the dudes, right?
So here's a really cool thing.
I love...
I love evolutionary psychology because it explains all of life to me.
So when humans are born as a species, we have far more males than females that are born.