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(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too.

Lynda G BoothroydCatharine P Cross
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
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.
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