Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
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You don’t have to be labelled with a mental illness to seek help.
Global attitudes to gender and sexual diversity are changing. Some embrace the diversity; others push back.
It’s not about trauma or how you were raised: evidence now points to a biological basis for transgender, and to the action of particular genes in that determination.
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine & SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research & Therapy, University of Pretoria
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Research Associate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware
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