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Sex-linked Traits and Human Behavior: Male vs Female Predispositions, Skills, and Interests
Some well-documented evolved human female predispositions, skills, and interests include:
- Verbal communication
- Non-verbal communication (e. g., facial expression)
- Empathizing
- People-reading and social interaction
- Identification of objects
- Interest in habitat
- Nurturing
- Mathematical calculation
- Indirect, relational aggression
Evolved human male predispositions, skills, and interests include:
- Tracking moving objects
- Spatial cognition
- Devising systems (“systemizing”)
- Risk-taking
- Competitiveness and status-seeking
- Figuring out how objects and events work
- Mathematical reasoning
- Con games and theft
- Direct, physical aggression
This does not mean, “All men are more competitive than all women.” It does not mean, “All women are better at verbal communication than all men.”