Gender Inequality in Biological Hypotheses
New Evidences
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https://doi.org/10.53897/RevGenEr.2023.02.12Keywords:
gender equity, biological behaviors, mate choice, critical choice, mosaic brainAbstract
The description of behavioral processes has been influenced by masculine thinking, helping to explain behavioral processes based on the prevailing hegemony. Therefore, an analysis of behavioral studies was made, which have been modified based on a more equitable gender thinking and with scientific evidence that supports these paradigm changes. We expose three examples of heoretical changes based on scientific evidence (feminine choice, honest signals, and mosaic brain), and a fourth example that, in addition to exposing a paradigm shift, was prejudiced as it was an idea proposed by a woman, for how long it took for the idea to permeate biological studies. When explaining the behaviors from the feminine perspectives, more complete explanations of the processes of choosing a partner and fertilization are observed. We also found that male and female brain explanations are not enough to divide brain types in humans. Now we talk about a mosaic brain, where the prevailing idea is that we have a continuum
of structures that give us mixed behavioral characteristics and heterogeneous abilities.
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