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Sex not on the brain, but in the nose: study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The enormous difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in animals at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than by any gender difference in brain circuitry.
gender  science  biology  research  ack 
august 2007 by amy
Pharyngula: Feminism is undermining human evolution!
...It's because the Y chromosomes accumulate more random garbage over time, and lack a mechanism to clean themselves up. I suppose one could argue that perhaps that does map onto some male properties...
biology  gender  arghh  evolution  genetics 
october 2006 by amy

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