#1093 Agustín Fuentes - Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I have a returned guest for you, Dr. Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton University. And today we're talking about his new book, Sex is a Spectrum, The Biological Limits of the Binary. So, Dr.

Fuentes, welcome back to the show. It's always a huge pleasure to have you one. Ricardo, it's my pleasure to be here again. It's a fantastic show. Thank you.

So before we get into discussion surrounding the supposed sex binary and how sex biology varies across species, let me start by asking you, because this is also something that you talk about at the beginning of your book. Uh why is sex evolved? I mean, couldn't we all, and by we all, I mean all organisms on earth just reproduce asexually? Yeah, uh there's uh a number of books, there's some really good books on sexual evolution of sex in the 1950s and 60s that all start with the sort of frame that sex makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective you know uh because of asexual reproduction, right?

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