A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams review – what we get wrong about men and women
Sophie McBain
A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender According to the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams, almost everyone gets sex wrong. Traditionalists tend to exaggerate the natural differences between men and women. Progressives tend to minimise them, and to assume that nurture and socialisation play a decisive role. He wants to promote a more nuanced, scientifically rigorous public conversation about why and how men and