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Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger

  • Written by: Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Australia
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How do sex differences arise? Few questions animate as much disagreement and contention, in everyday society and in academic study. For as long as the question has been asked, the answers have fallen between two extremes: sex differences arise innately, or they come from social experience.

That same polarity defines much of the study of human...

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Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMore than eight in ten Australians rate John Howard as having done a 'very good' or 'reasonable' job in handling foreign policy.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Australians regard John Howard as the best living former or current prime minister in handling foreign policy and Tony Abbott as the worst, according to the Lowy Institute’s annual poll.

While Malcolm...

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PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?

  • Written by: Jon Brodie, Chief Research Scientist, Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University

The Great Barrier Reef has become a major issue in the federal election campaign, with the stakes raised by the most severe bleaching ever documented and suggestions that the next few years will be our last chance to avert major damage to this World Heritage-listed icon.

Last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and federal environment minister...

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Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes

  • Written by: Peter Sonksen, Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology, St Thomas' Hospital and King's College, London; Visiting Professor, University of Southampton
imageCaster Semenya was withdrawn from competition in 2009 on the basis that her higher-than-normal testosterone level conferred a performance advantage.Reuters/Mike Hutchings

There are performance differences between the sexes in elite sport. It has long been assumed that contrasting levels of testosterone in men and women can largely account for that...

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