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(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too

Boothroyd, Lynda G.; Cross, Catharine P.

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Catharine P. Cross



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.

Citation

Boothroyd, L. G., & Cross, C. P. (2022). (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, Article e156. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x21001539

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Sep 13, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Nov 1, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 13, 2023
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Print ISSN 0140-525X
Electronic ISSN 1469-1825
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 45
Article Number e156
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x21001539
Related Public URLs https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5mk3n

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