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> Male and female are very dismorphic You mean sexually dimorphic. This is actually the subject of significant controversy (esp. with regards to intelligence),
by andreasvc 14y ago
> Male and female are very dismorphic
You mean sexually dimorphic. This is actually the subject of significant controversy (esp. with regards to intelligence), so you cannot state this so carelessly. An uncontroversial case of sexual dimorphism is a male spider which is three times smaller than its female counterpart.
- return0 14y agoIt's only controversial with regards to sensitive issues like intelligence. Of course humans are indisputably sexually dimorphic (and culturally polymorphic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans
- andreasvc 14y ago> It's only controversial with regards to sensitive issues like intelligence. Granted. > Of course humans are indisputably sexually dimorphic Only in a trivial/technical sense, i.e., there have to be differences for there to be distinguishable sexes. But for a biologist, humans as a species are not known for and do not stand out for their sexual dimorphism, compared to other species. Which leads me to conjecture that the differences and problems with sexism are more related to the social construct of gender.