(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too.
Lynda G BoothroydCatharine P CrossPublished 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.