Treat males and females not as better/worse variants of a single human template but as alternative evolutionary solutions that share a genome yet face different adaptive demands (driven by gamete size asymmetry and parental investment). This framing emphasizes equivalence in evolutionary 'success' while explaining persistent sex‑linked differences in behaviour and life history without ranking one sex over the other.
— Framing sexes as distinct but equally 'successful' solutions reframes cultural and policy debates about gender differences, diversity programs, and claims of deficiency or superiority, forcing more precise argumentation about what equality means in practice.
Aporia
2026.10.15
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Robert Lynch’s line: “It can be helpful to think of them as two species that happen to share a genome,” plus the essay’s reliance on Trivers’ parental‑investment theory.
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