Highlights of the article (http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm)

1) Men go to extremes more than women (It’s true not just with IQ but also with other things, even height )

2)The differences between the genders are more about motivation than ability

3)Workaholics are mostly men

4)Hardly any women improvise. Why? The ability is there but perhaps the motivation is less.

5)Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men.

6)Men outnumbered women both among the losers and among the biggest winners.

7) Men are social too — just in a different way -Women specialize in the narrow sphere of intimate relationships. Men specialize in the larger group

8)The male pattern is suited for the large groups, the female pattern is best suited to intimate pairs.

9)Maximize reproduction, a culture needs all the wombs it can get, but a few penises can do the job

10) On the Titanic, the richest men had a lower survival rate (34%) than the poorest women (46%)