PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Sexual Orientation, Parenting
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For aquinas and aristotle, god/nature made a certain number of types of things, and each of these types of things was based on a perfect model which is a form and of which individual humans are simply imperfect copies. We reverse this model and ask why so many individuals are similar instead of asking why some of them deviate. Stereotypes may generally reflect reality, partly because they help to shape reality. Publication bias when no difference is found, things aren"t published. Lots of evidence about cultural relativity of gender differences in expressing emotion. Many of these differences may be effects of social status gender typical emotion correlates not with gender but with greater/lesser status and power and gender differences are just side effects of status differences. Reasons for two sexes = two genders: Two types of sex chromosomes, xx and yy. But only gamete dimorphism is clear cut and not always, ex.