About the book
Science writer Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize winner, gathers research on the biological roots of the differences between men and women from evolutionary biology, anthropology, primatology, neuroscience, psychology and endocrinology. Her topics run from links between immunity and sex to the different ways men and women gossip. Among the findings she reports: testosterone in men falls in happy marriages, women in high-stress jobs show rising testosterone, and a study with sweaty T-shirts links male scent to the makeup of the immune system. Western societies, anthropologists say, count as mildly polygamous. Her case is that people are products of both biology and culture, which interact in ways that leave some room for choice.
Ryan Holiday listed it among his books to base a life on, calling it an easy starting point on the biological and psychological differences between the sexes, by a journalist drawing on scientists.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
One of the better books on evolutionary biology that focuses almost entirely on the biological and psychological differences between men and women. It’s written by a journalist (who cites scientists) so it’s easy to read if you’re not studied in the field. If you want to get into evolutionary psychology–which you totally should–this is a good starting point because it covers all the basics. Essentially, it discusses how men and women have benefited evolutionarily through different behaviors and strengths so it would only make sense that they would have developed into two very different entities.
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