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If you need academic citations, Anne Fausto-Sterling is a good source.
She's also the author of the very readable Myths Of Gender and Sexing the Body, which both deal with this topic in a very scholarly way.
For the science lovers:
Gender
Race
You had to ask... =)
They used to measure skulls to measure intelligence, and gauge behaviour. (Big skulls = smart, passive, kind; small skulls = dumb, violent, primitive). They also tried their best to show that Europeans had the biggest skulls. Of course, the data didn't always pan out, but bless their colonialist hearts, they kept on a'tryin. They also measured hands for ingenuity, feet for athleticism, etc. A paper like this would read: "Why do men have bigger feet? Because they had to go out of cave to hunt mammoths, while women evolved big mouths and butts because they sit around all day complaining."
Eventually they "scienced up" and had to actually show evidence linking morphology and their pet speculative theory. That is why anthropology today is very interested in how cultural beliefs and biases affect how we analyse the world - 'cause they were victims of it for so long.
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edit: more if you're interested --
An introductory text to Evolutionary Psychology that the authors of the study apparently skipped.
Anthropology:
The Biological Basis of Human Behavior (compilation of essays)
Myths of Gender
Deviant Bodies (Compilation)
> Well, physiologically, Teenager's frontal cortex is still developing leading to all sorts of issues with reasoning and impulse control.
This is actually not so clear. Just because teen brains differ from adult brains and teenagers behave differently from adults doesn't mean that there is a biological explanation. Sure, high school might be filled with jackasses, but a cross-cultural comparison will show you that adolescence is a cultural phenomenon and has been very different in other cultures and historical periods.
Recall also that there is a long history of science "discovering" that disadvantaged groups are not as rational as rich white men. E.g., it's only fairly recently that it became obvious that women aren't any stupider than men. I'd be curious to know how you can be certain that teenagers making fools of themselves "acting like children pretending to be adults" is a result of biology and how much a result of the insanity that is high school.
God this is so much bullshit. Read something:
http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Gender-Biological-Theories-Revised/dp/0465047920/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267295101&sr=8-1