dc.contributor.author | Dupre, JA | |
dc.contributor.author | Fine, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Joel, D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-17T14:32:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Common understanding of human sex-linked behaviors is that proximal mechanisms of genetic and hormonal sex, ultimately shaped by the differential reproductive challenges of ancestral males and females, act on the brain to transfer sex-linked predispositions across generations. Here, we extend the debate on the role of nature and nurture in the development of traits in the lifetime of an individual, to their role in the cross-generation transfer of traits. Advances in evolutionary theory that posit the environment as a source of trans-generational stability, and new understanding of sex effects on the brain, suggest that the cross-generation stability of sex-linked patterns of behavior are sometimes better explained in terms of inherited socioenvironmental conditions, with biological sex fostering intrageneration variability. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | C.F. is grateful for the support of a Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Fellowship. J.D’s research leading to this article has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement 324186. D.J. acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 217/16). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 21 (9), pp. 666-673 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.tics.2017.06.012 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28958 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier (Cell Press) for Trends | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | en_GB |
dc.subject | sex | en_GB |
dc.subject | gender | en_GB |
dc.subject | variability | en_GB |
dc.subject | evolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | adaptive traits | en_GB |
dc.subject | sex roles | en_GB |
dc.title | Sex-Linked Behavior: Evolution, Stability, and Variability | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1364-6613 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | en_GB |