Category: Gender
Events:
November 10, 2023
Seminar: Leading Change in Ourselves for Our World
Free webinar presented by climate scientist, Heidi Steltzer.
November 1, 2023
Prosocial Commons Book Club: Two Plays with Evolutionary Themes (The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard and The How and the Why by Sarah Treem)
Weekly book club for two plays with evolutionary themes: The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard and The How and the Why by Sarah Treem.
Articles:
May 20, 2025
Are We Hard-Wired To Believe In Gendered Differences?
When scientists search for innate gender differences in STEM, they risk reinforcing bias and overlooking the social structures that truly shape opportunity and success.
May 6, 2025
Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Chimpanzees Challenge Our Gendered Biases About Evolution
The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for so long?
February 6, 2024
Decolonizing Science Means Taking Indigenous Knowledge Seriously
Decolonization not only requires greater inclusion of marginalized knowers, but it also requires that systems are put in place that enable and fund Indigenous-led and conceptualized research and policy-making processes.
November 28, 2018
Fighting for the Middle Ground: David Sloan Wilson Interviews Holly Dunsworth on the Ethics of Teaching Evolution
In a world that is being ripped apart by polarized views and fake news, scientific discourse might be the last bastion of constructive disagreement based on respect for objective knowledge.
November 19, 2018
It Is Unethical To Teach Evolution Without Confronting Racism And Sexism
Evolution educators—even if sticking to E. coli, fruit flies, or sticklebacks—must confront the ways that evolutionary science has promoted or inspired so many racist, sexist, and otherwise harmful beliefs.
September 27, 2018
The Obstetrical Dilemma, Dismantled: Human Childbirth is Not a Dilemma
Rather than being evicted from the womb before their heads are too big, a new hypothesis argues that human babies are born when their growth rates become too costly for their mothers’ metabolism to support.
July 9, 2018
Sex Roles Are Flexible in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. What Does That Say About Human Evolution?
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos are far more similar in their gender roles than previously thought. In order to understand the range of complexity in our evolutionary cousins’ social lives, perhaps we first need to recognize the range of complexity that exists in our own.
June 12, 2018
Can Monkeys Be Gay? What Homosexual Behavior in Primates Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Human Sexuality
Recent observations of homosexual behavior in male spider monkeys adds to our knowledge of these behaviors and may help us answer questions about the evolutionary functions homosexual behaviors may play.
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