The Rise and Fall of Sex | Daphna Joel, Barry Barnes, Stuart Ritchie

Philosophy For Our Times

English - November 12, 2019 09:35 - 36 minutes - 33 MB - ★★★★ - 249 ratings
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Although most of us are critical of gender stereotypes, few deny the existence of two discrete biological sexes. Yet biology itself shows dozens of combinations of human sex chromosomes. Could biological sex itself then be an illusion, constructed from human categories? Or is this a futile attempt to deny the reality of two biological sexes? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Head of Psychobiology at Tel Aviv University Daphna Joel, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatrist at KCL Stuart Ritchie and sociologist of science Barry Barnes rethink sex and gender.

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