Gendered Behaviour: what can Science tell us?

12/18/14 • 90 min

The University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in association with The Guardian Newspaper, kindly supported by Cambridge University Press, hosted 3 major international events at Kings Place in London where international experts engaged directly with the public on topics of gender and bio-medical advances of the 21st Century. The second of these events was entitled 'Gendered Behaviour: what can Science tell us?' and featured: Professor Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford; Professor Robin Dunbar, Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford; Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University; and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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