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Sex Differences Above the Neck

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By Jerry A. Coyne
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A review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women by Steve Stewart-Williams; 362 pages; Forum, London (June 2026) “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!” —Gloria Steinem, 2019 In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse.
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Do the Arts Convey Truth? A Scientist's Controversial View

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By Jerry A. Coyne
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As a scientist, I tend to get labelled an anti-art bigot when I tell my friends that, unlike science, the literary, visual, and performing arts are not about truth. My assertion is greeted with an eyeroll and a shrug of the shoulders, or, by humanities professors, with disdain and opprobrium. To them, I’m just another narrow-minded disciple of the science-as-hegemony school.
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Opinion | Losing My Nonreligion

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By Jerry A. Coyne
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
I resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation when it turned into a gender fundamentalist organization. As an evolutionary biologist, I joined the Freedom From Religion Foundation because I supported its work guarding the wall of separation between religion and government, educating the public about how to be moral without faith, and, most important, upholding science and rationality over dogma and superstition.
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