Reacties op: The womb, not society, determines gender-related behaviour

Door: jasmin

jasmin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:15:08 +0000

Very true. My dad was a psychologist and he conducted similar experiments on me as a new born baby and later as a little kid, to prove that gender habits and taste are innate.

Door: victor Crebolder

victor Crebolder — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:36:21 +0000

Nice article, but I miss the names of Anne Moir and David Jessel. There book Brainsex, dating back to 1991, contains a lot of what Swaab mentions here. Nurture is outperformed by nature, which is, given the universal (yes, there is water on Mars;) Darwinistic protocols, only… natural. Resembling the egg-and-chicken-riddle, genes popped up first, behaviour came in second.

After eons of evolution had determined us being mammals there were clear diffences between motherfigures and male person. A different task needs a different genome. Henceforth the girly smelling of dolls versus the boyish moving about with miniature cars. And never the twain shall meet, but during copulation…

Door: Frans van Pallander

Frans van Pallander — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:07:28 +0000

This is nothing new. I saw years ago a BBC program on TV called “The chemical mind”, which explains all this and a lot more.

Door: Ronald van Ammers

Ronald van Ammers — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:21:15 +0000

Your interesting article leaves me with several questions which I hope you might answer in future columns. How do men and women use eye contact with the other sex? How do gays and lesbians use eye contact? The latter question would seem to bear on the innateness of homosexuals’ preferences. Also, to what degree, if any, can these instinctive eye contact behaviors be modified by practicing or using drugs, for example?

Thank you