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Category: Sex Differences
Sheril Kirshenbaum has a few comments about a piece in Science addressing innate differences between boys and girls in math. I have to say, it may be hard to accept the scientific truth sometimes, but the research really does consistently say the same thing again...
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Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex Differences
The following photograph is a Facebook Peme (Pic Meme, sometimes spelled "peem"). In its original form it had a caption that was sexist and offensive, feeding the idea that girls can't do math (innately) and also suggesting that a good backup plan for a middle...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:35 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
I think I know why science does not understand the female orgasm. It is because science excels when it breaks free of context, history, human complexities and anthropology, but when a topic requires one to grasp context, history, human complexities and anthropology, then science, especially...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:09 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gender and Sexual Orientation
First of all, I want you to know that I've devoted my life to this blog post so now you have every reason to love it more than any other blog post. Sniff sniff....
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Category: Brain and Behavior
Humans appear to have a reasonable amount of diversity in their sexual orientations, in what is often referred to as "gender" and in adult behavior generally. When convenient, people will point to "genes" as the "cause" of any particular subset of th is diversity (or...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:35 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Aging
Recently, Richard Dawkins said (full quote below) that a woman should not be concerned about her own safety if she finds herself in an elevator (under some sort of threat, presumably), because it is trivially easy to get out of an elevator if you are...
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Category: Falsehoods II
There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition....
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Category: Brain and Behavior
Human infants require more care than they should, if we form our expectations based on closely related species (apes, and more generally, Old World simian primates). It has been said that humans are born three months early. This is not accurate. It was thought that...
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