WSTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Pay Attention, Sociobiology, Social Equality
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For today"s class, two main ideas to think about: For the point of the lecture, we"re going to disagree that biology is destiny. Example, johan gray, the author of a popular book men are from mars, women are from venus o. The differences between the males and females of our species will ultimately be found in the cell arrangements and anatomy of the human brain . Why we need to pay attention to biological theories. Play central role in our understanding of both gender difference and gender inequality. There is a certain conceptual tidiness to biological explanations. 2. genes are passed from one generation to the next: species adapt to their changing environment, those characteristics that survive tend to become common in a species. Social equality between sexes a violation of the laws of nature . Dr. edward c. clarke: harvard"s eminent professor of education 1873: o.