![]() His methodology was basically going to a town and ranking the average attractiveness of the women, like a park bench pervert under the guise of science. ![]() A male baby will be acted upon by hormones that transform it Francis Galton, now remembered as the father of eugenics, made a “beauty map” of the British Isles. There are many intriguing and shocking facts along the way: all fetuses in the womb start as female. ![]() Along the way she debunks many myths, explores some of the wrongheaded ideas that prevailed in the past, and the new studies and debates that are arranging around gender differences in humans and animals. In Inferior, Angela Saini explores the science, past and present, that has attempted to explain and often dismiss women. Another note-heavy review with possible spoilers, if you consider nonfiction something that can be spoiled.įinally getting back into the swing of nonfiction after a very fiction-heavy 2020 thus far, I thought I’d turn to some gender science. ![]()
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