Episode 355: The biological clock doesn’t exist

The biological clock, generally understood as a felt sense of
urgency arising from a woman's physiology as she nears the end of
her reproductive window, can't exist as such. If this urge were
biological, we would expect it to occur when a woman is most
likely to conceive and carry a viable pregnancy (i.e., when she
is young and fertile). The historical record would also likely
look very different. In this episode, I make the case that the
urgency in question is more of a psychological clock than a
biological one.


"Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate
guarding across the ovulatory cycle":
https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/papers/downloads/haselton_gangestad.pdf


"Variation in sociosexuality across natural menstrual cycles":
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342556732_Variation_in_sociosexuality_across_natural_menstrual_cycles_Associations_with_ovarian_hormones_and_cycle_phase


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