Men And Women Are Different

Equality does not mean equivalence

Allan Milne Lees
16 min readMar 7

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Lascaux cave art. Image credit: British Council

We humans spent nearly all of our evolutionary history in conditions of scarcity. Consequently, we’re evolved to prefer indolence to activity whenever possible, as this conserves precious calories. We’re not only adapted to be physically indolent; as the brain burns a lot of blood sugar on the rare occasions we attempt to perform thinking, we’re evolved to…

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Allan Milne Lees

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