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Colour vision being the classic example of something preserved or enhanced in females due to coding on the X chromosome. This helps women, for the most part, co
by microcolonel 6y ago
Colour vision being the classic example of something preserved or enhanced in females due to coding on the X chromosome. This helps women, for the most part, completely avoid red-green colourblindness.
Coincidentally when searching to make sure I wasn't saying this the wrong way around, I was presented with this weird sexist propaganda[0] that only works because of the weird way people tend to think about these facts: you only acknowledge it if you can make it sound like women are better at everything and make no tradeoffs.
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/19/the-better-half-on-the-genetic-superiority-of-women-review-bold-study-of-chromosomal-advantage https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/19/the-better-hal...
- SamReidHughes 6y agoGreater male variance in humans has nothing to do with the article, or general discussion about the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction, because what's true of some categories of animal, like mammals, is not true of birds and other animals (whose sex chromosomes work differently -- female birds have greater variance, last I checked).
- microcolonel 6y ago> Greater male variance in humans has nothing to do with ... the the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184
- SamReidHughes 6y agoOkay, but it's not male-specific.