Gender differences

...But many fem- knowledged that women are as aggreseting and soothing their offspring and inists like myself who stress gender sive as men, but express their hostility in by affiliating with a group for protec- similarities are quite ready to accept the less physical ways...

...They create and maintain these once determined human survival on the be found to be less important than gender cooperative female groups to enhance savannas was different from today's similarities and individual differences...

...Of about sex and gender are shaped by theseven and a half years less than women...

...Fortunately, at this point ignorance about gender differences keeps us from f you know about "fight or roendocrine underpinnings of oxytocin, drawing conclusions about their signififlight" responses in threat- estrogen, and opioid mechanisms...

...their survival and that of their offspring...

...Cultur- After all, Jesus was born a male and yet As compared with males, women are al evolution also takes place, and is able displayed passionate "tend and befriend" " to transform innate biological human responses in the face of threat...

...rates of male cardiovascular disease, and for directions)-can be explained as Admittedly, my scientific intuitions for the fact that men live on the average arising from specific cultural effects...

...wings, like a mother hen...

...cance and value...

...mother each other-tending and be1-g3~fants...

...But in our civilized world, men and emotionally invest more in repro- self-conscious human species, the full incannot easily fight or flee from threats...

...Since that maintains there are biologically new scientific findings demonstrating assaults and threats to females often given human characteristics resulting that the unity and genetic similarity of come from aggressive males, even from from natural selection in the distant past, the human species are far greater than a sexual partner, females who face stress the so-called EEA or era of evolution- the relatively superficial differences of turn to female networks of kin and ary adaptation...

...Better to calm down ences oriented to sexual reproduction...

...Since hardly any studies ening situations, you are Aha...

...Surely Christian attachment-nurturing system that oper- suhsun!,e on lnC: eommonwualm.'y"I" orf disciples, whether male or female, must ates not only in females but in their in- -ill (ILI...

...human beings in God's own image as of sedating hormones, anxiety-calming I accept an evolutionary perspective one human family...

...and move forward...

...As SAT scores even tion...

...It is also acport that females react to danger by qui- ture of men and women...

...These highly aroused And yes, females develop verbal abili- gen, and that females produce stress horanimals are then mobilized to attack or ties earlier, have different play patterns, mones...

...flight" response to threats activates the tumble juvenile play, more physical ag- Finally, full neuroendocrinal evidence is sympathetic nervous system with cas- gression, more upper-body strength, not in yet...

...Most crucially, in the big-brained to flee...

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...If, however, it turns out that women really are the superior GENDER DIFFERENCES sex, we will just have to accept this fact Chemistry or culture...

...the female networks of kin and friends, and blend into friendly networks...

...males also produce oxytocin and estrothe bloodstream...

...Such behavior rests on the neu- friending till kingdom come...

...say those who argue for the im- of male affiliation have been done, it may I probably ready for "tend portance of innate gender differences be true that males also possess "tend and and befriend" strategies...

...I am not surprised by oxytocin enhanced by estrogen...

...Who can deny that males always and created and maintained for mutual supIn contrast, the classic male "fight or everywhere exhibit more rough-and- port, can themselves be sources of stress...

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...But other differences-in SAT fluence of consciousness on physiology, The resulting buildup of frustrated stress scores, in speech and behavioral pat- sex, gender, and reproductive behavior responses has been blamed for the high terns (such as the male inability to ask remains unknown...

...to take the people of Jerusalem under his maternal strategies are part of an innate 11,u a f; ift ofd ( ,ommonwueil...

...We know, for example, that cading adrenaline hormones secreted into and perhaps greater spatial abilities...

...duction...

...complex technological society...

...Those who want to affirm human progress must be ready to acSIDNEY CALLAHAN knowledge what is, in order to work for what ought to be...

...I believe in a God beyond tending and befriending proposes, parison to other individual differences gender ("I am who am") who creates women more often respond with surges and commonalities between the sexes...

...For if females fight, or flee, they fact that evolutionary mechanisms have out, so do rates of female and male stress, endanger the survival of their progeny produced some universal sex differ- addiction, and disease...

...Researchers in between males and females: here is befriend" responses that can be activated the most recent Psychological Review re- more proof of the complementary na- under certain conditions...

...The environment that race...

...course socialization always builds upon ological commitments as well as by reaFemales can have sympathetic arousal biology, but gender differences can be son, research, and interpretations of my to stress as well, but as the new model of either accentuated or minimized in com- experience...

...It turns out that and of themselves...

...I expect that gender differences will friends...

...He loved to create and maintain networks, and to and nurtured his friends and he desired be less threatened by crowding...