Challenging Popular Myths of Sex, Gender and Biology
by Malin Ah-King , Root Gorelick , Jessica Carpinone , Lindsay Jackson Derraugh , Daniela Crocetti , Josefin A. Madjidian , Kristina Karlsson Green , Åsa Lankinen , Jonathan P. Drury , Thierry Hoquet , Pris Touraille , David Azul , Ole Jacob Madsen
Description
The first chapters explore important questions: What are the fundamental sex differences? How do genes and hormones influence an individual’s sex? Subsequent chapters concern topics including: sex stereotypes in the field of sexual conflict, how the focus on genes in evolutionary biology disregards other means of inheritance, and the development of Darwin's theory of sex differences.
The last three chapters look at humans, discussing: an interdisciplinary approach to the evolution of sex differences in body height, biological versus social constructive perspectives on the gendering of voices and nature-culture arguments in the current political debate on paternity leave in Norway.
