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What evolutionary biology can and can't tell us about sex, gender, and sexuality

19 mins | Sep 7, 2023
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Some human social constructs like gender are viewed erroneously in an evolutionary context. Is it time for our understanding of a person’s self-identity to evolve? Prosanta Chakrabarty argues that we have historically pigeonholed the spectrum of sex into discrete categories that don’t actually fit reality. Read by Karl Miller.

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