Author: Dupré J.

Source: Women: a Cultural Review, Volume 12, Number 1, 1 March 2001 , pp. 9-18(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Dupre´ considers recent attempts to explain gendered difference in human behaviour by an appeal to evolutionary theory, particularly in the context of the recent programme of 'evolutionary psychology'. It argues that the fundamental assumptions of this programme are unsupported and implausible, and the attempt it offers of providing a universal account of human behaviour does little or nothing to counter the prima facie diversity of gender difference. A more sophisticated understanding of evolutionary theory suggests that we should see gender as developing out of a complex and variable cascade of interactions between biology and environment, rather than as the expression of species-wide biological universals.

Keywords: EVOLUTIONARY; PSYCHOLOGY; GENDER; HUMAN; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NATURE; SOCIOBIOLOGY

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2001-03-01

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