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Evolution
Promiscuous Men, Chaste Women and Other Gender Myths
The notion that behavioral differences between the sexes are innate and immutable does not hold up under scrutiny
Cordelia Fine is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne. Her most recent book, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society (W. W. Norton, 2017), won the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Credit: Nick Higgins
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