Nicholas Wade

But marriage is a separate question.

It's sort of how well do you run an institution.

So I think the way evolution has equipped us is that men are more used to sort of long-range relationships, to relationships outside the family.

And I think it will turn out that they are generally better at managing them than women are.

But there's no hard data on that.

We're in the middle of this grand experiment and we're going to find out.

Well, it's because there's a strong tradition, particularly on the left, to deny that evolution has anything to do with human behavior.

They assert that the mind is a blank slate at birth and that everything that we know is learned from culture and that nothing comes from genetics.

But it seems to me this is a very foolish view for the reason you alluded.

If you look at chimp societies, and chimps are our closest living cousins,

There clearly is a genetic basis for what they do.

All chimp societies have the same organization.

All chimps behave in much the same way.

And female chimps behave in a very different way from male chimps.

And chimp societies have a very specific structure, all of which... Tell us about that.

Well, they are very hierarchical.

There's a male hierarchy.

And beneath that, there's a female hierarchy.

So all females are subordinate to all males.

As it should be.