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Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger

  • Written by Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Australia
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How do sex differences arise? Few questions animate as much disagreement and contention, in everyday society and in academic study. For as long as the question has been asked, the answers have fallen between two extremes: sex differences arise innately, or they come from social experience.

That same polarity defines much of the study of human...

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Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMore than eight in ten Australians rate John Howard as having done a 'very good' or 'reasonable' job in handling foreign policy.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Australians regard John Howard as the best living former or current prime minister in handling foreign policy and Tony Abbott as the worst, according to the Lowy Institute’s annual poll.

While Malcolm...

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PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?

  • Written by Jon Brodie, Chief Research Scientist, Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University

The Great Barrier Reef has become a major issue in the federal election campaign, with the stakes raised by the most severe bleaching ever documented and suggestions that the next few years will be our last chance to avert major damage to this World Heritage-listed icon.

Last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and federal environment minister...

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Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes

  • Written by Peter Sonksen, Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology, St Thomas' Hospital and King's College, London; Visiting Professor, University of Southampton
imageCaster Semenya was withdrawn from competition in 2009 on the basis that her higher-than-normal testosterone level conferred a performance advantage.Reuters/Mike Hutchings

There are performance differences between the sexes in elite sport. It has long been assumed that contrasting levels of testosterone in men and women can largely account for that...

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  1. How should reading be taught in schools?
  2. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  3. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  4. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  5. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  6. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  7. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  8. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  9. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  10. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  11. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  12. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  13. Internships help students better manage their careers
  14. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  15. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  16. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  17. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  18. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  19. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  20. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  21. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  22. Response from Labor spokesperson
  23. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  24. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  25. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  26. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  27. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  28. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  29. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  30. The off-topic Conversation #98
  31. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  32. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  33. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  34. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  35. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  36. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  37. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  38. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  39. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  40. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  41. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  42. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  43. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  44. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  45. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
  46. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, May 2016
  47. A new normal, as Basslink finally resumes
  48. Cattle 'sledgehammering' in Vietnam raises yet more questions over live export
  49. From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford
  50. The problem with reinforced concrete
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