Title: Biological Theories of Gender | Simply Psychology
Headings: Biological Theories of Gender
Biological Theories of Gender
Hormones
Empirical Evidence
Critical Evaluation
Chromosomes
SRY Gene (Sex-determining Region Y gene)
Atypical Chromosomes
Turner's Syndrome
Klinefelter's Syndrome
Evolutionary Explanations of Gender
Critical Evaluation
Biosocial Approach to Gender
Empirical Evidence
APA Style References
How to reference this article:

Content: This calmness and shyness remains with them throughout their lives. This suggests that level of aggression have a biological rather than environmental component. Evolutionary Explanations of Gender
As the evolutionary approach is a biological one, it suggests that aspects of human behavior have been coded by our genes because they were or are adaptive. A central claim of evolutionary psychology is that the brain (and therefore the mind) evolved to solve problems encountered by our hunter-gatherer ancestors during the upper Pleistocene period over 10,000 years ago. The evolutionary approach argues that gender role division appears as an adaptation to the challenges faced by the ancestral humans in the EEA (the environment of evolutionary adaptation). The mind is therefore equipped with ‘instincts’ that enabled our ancestors to survive and reproduce. The two sexes developed different strategies to ensure their survival and reproductive success. This explains why men and women differ psychologically: They tend to occupy different social roles. To support the evolutionary perspective, the division of labour was shown to be an advantage.