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Warriors and worriers : the survival of the sexes / Joyce F. Benenson with Henry Markovits.

by Benenson, Joyce F.

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Oxford University Press, USA, c2014.

Sex differences (Psychology)

Sex differences.

9780199972234 (hc.)

0199972230 (hc.)

x, 276 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-265) and index.

"Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex differences, based on thirty years of research with young children and primates around the world. Her theory focuses on how men and women stay alive. Benenson draws on a fascinating array of studies and stories that explore the ways boys and men deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders. This produces two social worlds for each sex which sets humans apart from most other primate species. Human males form cooperative groups that compete against out-groups, while human females exclude other females in their quest to find mates, female family members to invest in their children, and keep their own hearts ticking. In the process, Benenson turns upside down the familiar wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than women."--From publisher.

Markovits, Henry.

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