(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too

Boothroyd, Lynda G.; Cross, Catharine P.

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
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1187310
• Related Public URLs: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5mk3n