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Thinking about human kinds: Gender

An editor inserted an error into this piece -- it refers to the Y chromosome as a ``gene.'' (Overconfident editors are an occupational hazard of science writing.)

Otherwise, I think it has held up pretty well since it was written in 1996. The court tussles it predicted over the definition of male and female did, in fact, arise.

Recent Writing

New York City
Spike Lee in Red Hook
The director goes kayaking in Brooklyn
Us and Them 2008 Edition
A sample of Us and Them from Google Books
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Essay
The myth of ``Peak Attention''
Are we really running out of attention?
Eliot Spitzer and Psychologists' Changing Concept of Conformity
Is it always the lone maverick who's right, when s/he refuses to play along? That's how American psychologists have taught it, but recently they have been taking another look at conformism.
Other Species
Fiction
The Punishment Fits the Crime
A genomic nightmare