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The perennial nature-vs-nurture debate just won't go away. This is particularly true with regards to gender differences , a subject of broad interest. I'll acknowledge my biases up front. I have long been skeptical about biological determinism . This is partly because of its historical association with racism, sexism, classism, and the eugenics movement. But it's also because, particularly in recent years, there has been a tendency to overstate the importance of genetics in explaining human behaviour. Part of the explanation for this "genohype" may be the dramatic achievements of the Human Genome Project together with the rise of the biotechnology sector. Just as the success of Darwin's theory of natural selection led to Social Darwinism , today's molecular genetics revolution has put a new wind in the sails of biological determinism. In the scientific world, the nature-vs-nurture debate is generally accepted to be an ill-posed problem. Because the enviro...