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Aristotle's Biology

In Our Time: Science

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The Politics of Women

"I'm really not sure what is going on, if and whether or not we really should be looking for a connection," she says. "He thinks that males are hotter and they can do more, there's more active power in being hotter." He does say that women are inferior by nature, this kind of by nature thing. But he doesn't say anything of the kind in the biological works in terms of the intellectual capacities,. So I think biology has released him from that kind of distinction.

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