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The road not taken

by Greta Moran | 10/21/2008

Just over a year ago, Katie Hargrave M.A. '09 embarked on her first tour of Boston's legendary Freedom Trail, the red brick path linking 16 of the city's historical sites.

The genetics of gender

by Greta Moran | 10/21/2008

According to Brown University Prof. Anne Fausto-Sterling, the belief that genetics alone can determine a person's sexual orientation is a "poor and misleading account of what genes do and how they affect us." Instead, Fausto-Sterling explained that genetic factors interact with other social and environmental influences in people's lives to determine their sexual identities."Genes are not at the bottom of the pyramid," she said, "but they are in the middle of the sandwich."Fausto-Sterling, professor of biology and gender studies, challenged common misconceptions about sexual development in the Women's and Gender Studies department's annual Eleanor Roosevelt presentation last Wednesday, "Nature, Nurture, Neither: Reconceptualizing Gender and Sexuality."Fausto-Sterling claimed that sexuality and developmental differences between genders are based on systems in which both nature and nurture interact."Rather than being determined by genes or experiences, [sexuality] results from complex interactions between system components."As opposed to a commonly held view that nature and nurture are completely isolated factors, Fausto-Sterling explained that "nature and nurture are components of a single dynamic system."Using the example of someone learning to walk, Fausto-Sterling described the nature-nurture interaction.

Humanist explored in prof's book

by Greta Moran | 10/07/2008

Prof. David Hackett Fischer (HIST) delivered a presentation on his upcoming book, Champlain's Dream, a biography of Samuel de Champlain, which is scheduled to be released on Oct.

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