![]() ![]() The Better Half is his latest foray into the field of popular science, and presents a general argument for the superiority of women’s biology to men’s. He has worked across the world in paediatric medicine, including clinics for HIV-infected infants and is also a biotechnology entrepreneur and bestselling author. ![]() Moalem, a Canadian-born physician, is a research geneticist who has identified two new rare genetic conditions. After decades, if not centuries, of bad press for women and their vulnerable biology, this book argues that in fact “almost everything that is biologically difficult to do in life … is done better by females”. Let’s hear it for the female of the species and (more guardedly) for her second X-chromosome! Female superiority in colour vision, immune response, longevity, even basic survival from birth to death are illustrated in Sharon Moalem’s The Better Half. ![]()
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