Evolutionary psychology is also an explicit refutation of the suggestion that one sex might be superior to the other. As David Buss (1996) explains, any notion of superiority is logically incoherent from an evolutionary point of view. A bird’s wings cannot be considered inferior or superior to a fish’s fins, and in the same way neither sex can be considered inferior or superior. Each sex possesses mechanisms designed to deal with its own adaptive problems. Most of these mechanisms are similar for women and men; some, specifically in those domains having to do directly or indirectly with
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