tools, female vs. male use of, 110
toys: sex preferences, 3, 68, 71; sex-typed toys, 62–63; types of, impact on brain development, 76, 90
Trevathan, Wenda, 102
Trivers, Robert: critique of Gowaty’s research, 135–36; critique of Hrdy’s research, 99; pigeon observations, 137–38; on sexual desire and reproductive capacity, 129–30; and sexual selection theory, 123–25
Troisi, Alfonso, 145
Tuljapurkar, Shripad, 172
Verma, Ragini, 80
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft), 18
violence against women. See sexual jealousy, mate guarding; virginity, female chastity
virginity, female chastity: approaches to insuring, 141–42; emphasis on in patriarchal societies, 143–44, 146–48; importance of religious beliefs, 143–44; and violence against women, 178–79. See also sexuality, female
vote, right to, biological arguments against, 16–17, 21
Wagner, Günter, 145
Walker, Robert, 107, 131
Wardere, Hibo, 139–41
Washburn, Sherwood, 108
Whitehead, Saffron, 160–61
“Why Do Men Hunt?” (Gurven and Hill), 112
“Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan” (Gurven, Tuljapurkar, and Puleston), 172
wife, role of, 16–17, 25, 80, 87
Wilder, Burt Green, 76
Williams, George, 162–63
Wilson, Robert, 159–60
Wolf, Naomi, 120
Wolfe, Albert, 21–22
Wolfinger, Nicholas, 4
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 18, 49, 139
Wolpert, Lewis, 55
The Woman That Never Evolved (Hrdy), 128, 143
Woman the Gatherer (Dahlberg), Zihlman chapter in, 109, 113
“Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology” (Linton), 108–9
women. See females, women
Wrangham, Richard, 154
X-linked disorders, 39–41, 65
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman, 96
Yamanaka, Miki, 31
Zihlman, Adrienne, 109–11, 113–14
zolpidem (ambien), metabolism of, 46
Zondek, Bernhard, 26
Zuk, Marlene, 113
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism gold award in 2015. Saini has a master’s in engineering from Oxford University, and she is the author of Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Saini, Angela, author.
Title: Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that’s rewriting the story / Angela Saini.
Description: Boston : Beacon Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016048808 (print) | LCCN 2016057124 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807071700 (hardback) | ISBN 9780807071717 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Women’s studies. | Women—Psychology. | Women—Physiology. |BISAC: SCIENCE / History. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Classification: LCC HQ1180 .S25 2017 (print) | LCC HQ1180 (ebook) | DDC 305.4—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048808