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Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal chats with Trey Elling about DIFFERENT: GENDER THROUGH THE EYES OF A PRIMATOLOGIST. Topics include:

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• The reason for focusing mostly on chimps and bonobos (0:55)
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• Whether young primates make gender-neutral decisions when playing (1:42)
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• The difference between gender and biological sex (6:42)
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• The effects of raising a genderless child on equality (9:21)
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• Emotional differences between primate males and females (12:44)
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• Bonobos as evidence that male dominance is not pre-destined (17:26)
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• Bonobos' erotic tendencies (19:59)
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• Frans' "Faces and Behinds" study (22:54)
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• Female sex drive being exploited in pigeon racing (26:43)
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• The biggest difference between make and female sex drive (29:46)
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• Do primates rape? (31:57)
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• How the 'alpha male' ideal has been misconstrued over time (36:28)
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• Why it takes about one second for us to determine another person's biological sex (39:28)
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• Are primates similar to humans regarding a desire to compete against the same sex? (40:58)
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• Why primate and human males tend to get over conflict quicker than females (45:02)
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• Whether primate males step up to tend to babies if a female isn't around (47:15)
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• Humans, primates, and other animals having sex with no reproductive potential (49:51)
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