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"Female professors were just as biased against women students as their male colleagues, and biology professors just as biased as physics professors - even though more than half of biology majors are women, whereas men far outnumber women in physics. "

"Even expectant fathers experience morning sickness and other symptoms of pregnancy, a phenomenon known as couvade. Studies have found couvade in as little as 11 percent of subjects and as much as 97 percent. We don't know why these numbers vary so wildly, but there have been lots of theories to explain why dads get morning sickness. "

a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."