
How zoology got female animals all wrong
CNN
Since Charles Darwin, the dominant, alpha male and the coy, passive female have been a mainstay of evolutionary biology, but a new book argues that this is a sexist misconception and tells a new story about the animal kingdom.
A new book takes down this sexist, ahem, fallacy and tells a more complete story about the role of female animals in the wild.

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