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Michael Shermer on Transgender Athletes in Sports

The Forward

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The Importance of Genetics in Human Behavior

The prevailing wisdom was in the 50s and 60s that raising somebody is entirely determinate of what they become. Charles Darwin published his Sentiment in 1871, applied evolutionary theory to human behavior. It was a century before it was okay to talk about that again. That's a big cultural shift.

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