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When women win

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Laura Betzig
Affiliation:
The Adaptationist Program, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 lbetzig@aol.com
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In Homo sapiens and other species, promiscuity, risk-taking, and aggression are less matters of sex (having XX vs. XY) than gender (giving PI vs. resources and/or genes). Classic role reversals include: sea-horses, polyandrous birds, and a few heiresses in England and Rome. Unlike other females, but like many males, they are assertive, they take chances, and they are not chaste.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press