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is a book by Angela Saini which certainly does not live down to its title. The sub-title is How Science Got Women Wrong....and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, and it's an excellent, very accessible, account of the assumptions that lie behind much of the research on sex and gender differences. I speak with zero scientific authority, but the book seems to me to represent a very well-balanced approach to a range of issues that are often highly tendentious: differential brain size, the biological base of cooperative work, and domination, amongst others.  Saini never shouts, she just covers the ground, making it clear how our understanding has developed and where…
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