Human sexual dimorphism - a sex and gender perspective
- Autor(en)
- Sylvia Kirchengast
- Abstrakt
The term gender is essential in recent biological anthropology. After decades of critical discussion the differentiation into biological sex and social gender is accepted as especially useful. The distinction into sex and gender makes a more complex view at biological phenomenon such a sexual size dimorphism typical of Homo sapiens possible. Although sexual size dimorphism has a clear evolutionary basis and is caused by genetic and hormonal factors, socio-cultural factors such as gender role in society and gender typical workload influence the degree of sexual size dimorphism too.
- Organisation(en)
- Department für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
- Journal
- Anthropologischer Anzeiger
- Band
- 71
- Seiten
- 123-133
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 11
- ISSN
- 0003-5548
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1127/0003-5548/2014/0376
- Publikationsdatum
- 03-2014
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 106001 Allgemeine Biologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Anthropology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Animal Science and Zoology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7f091ee4-c733-47ad-82a2-2c02784fb439