Are We Working At Cross-Purposes?
Tuesday, 09 January 2024
This article explores the biological and societal factors influencing gender-specific desires in relationships.
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Building a Space-Faring Civilization: Why Space? Why Now?
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
We conceptualize humanity’s ever more successful effort to explore space as no less than a Third Renaissance in which men and women are engaged in an ever-expanding and ever more successful effort to implement human existence on other planets beside our own. With increasing intensity and frequency, our most accomplished pundits warn that our continued
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Hormones – The Classical explanation for physiological sex differences
Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Ask a layperson what biologically differentiates males and females, and at least two different answers will undoubtedly emerge: gonads and hormones.
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Gender and Body Fat
Thursday, 25 May 2023
If Leptin regulates overall body mass, what factors are responsible for women’s and men’s different body shapes? Classically, women look like pears and men like apples.
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What’s the difference between men’s and women’s lungs
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
men’s lungs are smaller than those of men. Before you say “I knew it,” I want to tell you something surprising: the lungs are smaller in women even when we adjust for smaller size of women’s bodies.
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Nature versus Nature?
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Perhaps no question sparks more controversy than whether children assume sex roles as a result of their biology or the socialization they’re exposed to. The answer, of course, is probably not an “either/or” but a “with” – some combination of the socialization we receive interacts with our natural biology (itself a knot of complicated and
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The Intelligent Genome: How Epigenetics Mediates Adaptation
Monday, 03 April 2023
Marianne J. Legato, MD, PhD (hon.c.), FACP GENDER AND THE GENOME Volume 1, Number 3 The world we are living in seems to be in an unprecedented state of perpetual crisis: nations are changing leadership and direction; a new level of life-threatening bellicosity saturates the daily news. The planet itself seems to be in a
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How focusing on women is impacting how we think about the unique biology of men
Thursday, 16 March 2023
One of the most unexpected and valuable benefits of thinking so deeply and meticulously regarding the nature of women's biology, surprisingly, has been a new view of how to investigate the unique biology of men
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