(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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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
Early online date	13 Sept 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001539
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

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

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