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A meta-analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 Apr 2022

Harrison Lauren M, Noble Daniel W A, Jennions Michael D

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The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed to biology, underpinned by claims that there is generally greater variation among males than females in non-human animals due to stronger sexual selection on males. However, evidence for greater male variability is limited to...

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PMID: 34908228
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12818

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