> “Sarah Jane” Baker Speaking of words, why would “Professor” Dawkins do that? > This is rapidly becoming more and more difficult, as old words with a long hi

> “Sarah Jane” Baker Speaking of words, why would “Professor” Dawkins do that? > This is rapidly becoming more and more difficult, as old words with a long history of usage such as "gender" are being appropriated to mean, and refer to, things quite different from the original senses and references of those terms. Like "chaos" in physics, "master" in computing, or, as you point out, "theory" in science as a whole. Wikipedia has John Money introducing a distinction between biological sex and gender identity in 1955, by the way.