Research indicates that there are genuine (although often small) gender differences in verbal ability, mathematical ability, spatial ability, aggression, and nonverbal communication. There is also some evidence that biological differences between the sexes in hormone levels and brain organization contribute to some or all of these behavioral differences. Adopt an evolutionary perspective, and
discuss why these biological differences and their consequent behavioral differences might exist.
What will be an ideal response?
Possibilities: aggressiveness and spatial ability might have served the male in his role as provider, especially as hunter, while the female bore and reared the young. Communicative abilities (verbal ability and nonverbal communication) could conceivably have been useful to females in their roles as preservers of family and other important relationships. Mathematical ability is a tough one, though creative students will be able to come up with something.
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