Lousy at parallel parking but a whizz at multitasking and locating lost keys? Got a mind for trivia and a thing for fashion magazines? Congratulations! You're probably a woman. No, really In his provocative new book, the developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert argues that there is actually hard science behind these and many other gender stereotypes

In My Fair Lady Professor Higgins sings a song about the difference between the sexes, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" It comes from an amusingly, ludicrously biased male point of view, but I have used it as the title for my new book on the subject to remind us that the differ...

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Published inStella p. 30
Main Author Martin, Chris
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Telegraph Media Group Holdings Limited 14.09.2014
Subjects
Brain
Children & youth
Embryos
Females
Gender differences
Men
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Summary:In My Fair Lady Professor Higgins sings a song about the difference between the sexes, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" It comes from an amusingly, ludicrously biased male point of view, but I have used it as the title for my new book on the subject to remind us that the differences between men and women remain a major issue. All men in the world today are essentially biologically modified women, because we all start our embryonic lives as females (that is why, for example, men still have breasts, even though they serve no function).
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