(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too

Lynda G Boothroyd; Catharine P Cross

doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001539

(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too

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Abstract

The target paper shows how cultural adaptations to ecological problems can underpin "paradoxical" patterns of phenotypic variation. We argue: (1) Gendered social learning is a cultural adaptation to an ecological problem. (2) In evolutionarily novel environments, this adaptation generates arbitrary-gendered outcomes, leading to the paradoxical case of larger sex differences in more gender equal societies.

Original language	English
Article number	e156
Journal	Brain and Behaviour
Volume	45
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001539
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Sept 2022

Keywords

Adaptation, physiological
Cluster analysis
Male
Female
Sex factors
Social learning
Humans

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