
192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Value of Diversity in Science
evolutionary psychology, i don't kno, t's like something like 70 % women. Why bet are getting degrees in that field? Anda, same thing in medicine and so on. I had a discussion with this with the name naomi oreskes, the loser historian of science,. In her book, o trust science, an that it's not just that men have been misogenistic historically. It's that even the questions that are asked, or the models that are used is more male oriented if you only have men working in the field. So introducing an bringing women into a field isn't that it feminizes the men ecessarily, or makes them less masaginistic
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