Malin Ah-King's new article in TREE
In the latest number of the international journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), gender researcher and evolutionary biologist Malin Ah-King at the Centre for Gender Research responds to an article on anisogamy and the evolution of 'sex roles'.
In her article, Malin Ah-King discusses several problems with the article by Schärer L. et al. "Anisogamy, chance and the evolution of sex roles", published in the same journal earlier this year:
"(1) a correlation between anisogamy and 'sex roles' is not equal to causation, (2) their problematic use of the term 'sex roles', and (3) their mis-interpretation of chance or stochastic effects in the models to which they object".
In conclusion, she writes that "anisogamy cannot answer the key question in sexual selection: 'why is the nature and extent of these (sexual) differences so variable within and among species?'".
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