Gender Gap: How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships

By David Philip Barash and Judith Eve Lipton

Book Overview

Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from biology. Throughout the natural world, males are those creatures that make sperm; females make eggs. The oft-noticed "gender gap" derives, in turn, from this "gamete gap." In Gender Gap, Barash and Lipton (husband and wife, professor and physician, biologist and psychiatrist) explain the evolutionary aspects of male-female differences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808862
• ISBN13: 9780765808868
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

evolutionary biology

This is another fine work by this author who not only has a keen sense of evolution but also of literature and human nature. I've read several of the works by the Barash family and have found them all very illuminating.