274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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Are the Colors a Cultural Product?
Colors are a cultural product, it seems so. If you test very young children, like 18 mone, i think it's 18 months, they tested children,. the boys will look more at cars and trucks, and the girls will looking more at dolls. But the color doesn't matter to them. Blue and pink doesn't matter. That comes in laterand that's why people think that is a cultural product. That's not something they are born is as boys and girls. So when we dress our boys in blue nd and and are very happy that we do that, and feel very er er confirming the culture and so on, that's purely acultural product. I think
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