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Hi All,
Here's an interesting bit of research suggesting that secondary maleness, the attributes we routinely associate with maleness, are driven by highly variable genetic expression.  This variability results in greater differences between males than between females more generally.  

Now statistically, I'm sure the "tails" of similarity are very broad, so there's lots of overlap.  But I'm led to think that the innate increased genetic variability of males, gives rise to wider range of behavioral extremes, which find there ways into all sorts of social and cultural expression from makeup to fashions to prisons.  

The PNAS article is behind a paywall, so it's hard to speculate beyond what's written in the Times.
C

From The New York Times:

OBSERVATORY: Male Sensitivity Written in the Genes

A crucial gene on the Y chromosome, SRY, that activates male development in a human embryo is surprisingly sensitive and vulnerable to environmental factors, a study finds.

http://nyti.ms/16fDoPT


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