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#747 David Geary - Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences (Pt. 2)

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Rough and Tumble Play in Boys

Children come innately psychologically equipped with some mechanism or set of mechanisms to even before being socialized, I think being able to pay attention more to behaviors that are typically male or female. The rough and tumble boys engage in rough and tumble play all on their own because they find it fun and amusing. Girls generally don't like being pushed around and jumped on and so forth and they withdraw from those types of things. Now, cultural factors can ramp it up. So, society isn't creating it. It's amplifying or diminishing its expression.

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