 | Richard Dawkins (March 26, 1941 - ?) on Sex and Gender(published by RevoltSource) |
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Evolutionary Biologist, Anti-Creationist Critic and Atheist, Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford
: A British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #1 on Social Struggle Quotes >> Sex and Gender
“But what is the essence of maleness? What, at bottom, defines a female? We as mammals see the sexes defined by whole syndromes of characteristics -- possession of a penis, bearing of the young, suckling by means of special milk glands, certain chromosomal features, and so on. These criteria for judging the sex of an individual are all very well for mammals but, for animals and plants generally, they are no more reliable than is the tendency to wear trousers as a criterion for judging human sex. In frogs, for instance, neither sex has a penis.”
Source: "The Selfish Gene," by Richard Dawkins, 40th Anniversary Edition, Oxford University Press, 2016, originally published 1976. Chapter 9: Battle of the sexes, Page 183.
"The Selfish Gene," by Richard Dawkins, 40th Anniversary Edition, Oxford University Press, 2016, originally published 1976.
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