Busting Myths about Being Female: Lucy Cooke
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What does it mean to be female? Doting mother, chaste pacifist? Think again. Our ideas about femininity were baked in Victorian cultural bias thanks to Charles Darwin. In this fascinating talk, based on her best-selling book BITCH, Lucy showcases the animals, and the scientists studying them who are redefining the female of the species. You’ll meet post-menopausal orcas whose wisdom leads their cultured society, primates whose promiscuity is a maternal strategy, murderous meerkat matriarchs, ‘lesbian’ albatross couples that partner up to raise their chicks and lizards that have dispensed with males altogether and reproduce solely by cloning.