Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Or inside evolutionary biology, you can have sort of testing of theory papers and you can have theory papers.

And the people that are writing the theory papers say, test this theory.

We want you to go into the lab and test this now.

But we're putting forward something we think might be new theory that we're developing.

And then there are the people that are like, these are the observations we made.

We tested this in this amount of organisms, whatever.

And so I started to kind of track these cool kids.

Beans is in that crew.

Julia Monk is in that crew.

Ambika Kamath.

Tons of them.

They're all over.

And I was like, wait, these people wrote a paper over here saying that the word sex is being used in all of these expansive ways, but it actually means many things.

And then these people over here are arguing that we look at it this other way.

So I started going to each of them and saying, what does sex mean?

I'm confused.

I don't understand what sex means.

And some of them, like Beans, would say, you're not crazy to be reading all that you're reading and to think we haven't really landed what it means.

We haven't.

And then others of them would say what was true for their study species.

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