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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes listeners on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included rather than excluded.

Modern science is pivotal in our understanding of race - not because of the lines that thinkers through the centuries have chosen to trace but because, once grouped, what they thought belonging to these groups signified. In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present. At its heart, race is the belief that we are born different, in character and intellectually as well as in appearance.

Per centinaia di anni è stato un luogo comune: le donne sono il sesso debole, inferiore. Sono fisicamente più deboli, meno intelligenti, subordinate per natura. Persino uno studioso del calibro di Charles Darwin afferma che le donne si collocano a un gradino più basso dell'evoluzione, e per decenni gli scienziati - tutti uomini, ovviamente - hanno portato prove a sostegno di questa tesi. Che si tratti di intelligenza o emotività, di capacità di apprendere o di comportamento, la scienza ha continuato a dirci che uomini e donne sono sostanzialmente diversi.