Steve Moxon

Dominance hierarchy (DH) is never bi-(inter-)sexual. Rare ostensible female dominance (over males) is not even amenable to modelling, and actually is male non-engagement in dominance terms (deference, not submission). Any female hierarchy is not DH, as it is not contest-based, but from either mutually signalled differential fecundity or maternal ra...

A hitherto unidentified underlying basis of the globally ubiquitous demographic transition is suspected from causality-testing economic models, problems with anthropological hypotheses, and the longstanding opacity of aetiology unrelieved by integrating theory from different fields. Given a newly found main factor of population density, there is an...

Sex is defined functionally, in terms of gamete production, which is strictly binary and immutable. Traits thought sex-derived (or related), in being at some remove may not be sex-specific, utilising systems common across sex; however, apparently sex-overlapping traits serve to reinforce, not compromise sex binarity. Sexual identification and orien...

Women's mate choice, given profoundly differential male genetic quality (specifically genomic integrity), is heavily skewed towards topmost-ranked males, producing polygyny with residual monogamy and bachelordom. Polygyny is ancestral, as in gorilla harems (apparently homologous with human female cliques): originally predation-avoidance grouping, m...

Women’s mate choice, given profoundly differential male genetic quality (specifically genomic integrity), is heavily skewed towards topmost-ranked males, producing polygyny with residual monogamy and bachelordom. Polygyny is ancestral, as in gorilla harems (aapparently homologous with human female cliques): originally predation-avoidance grouping,...

Women’s mate choice, given profoundly differential male genetic quality (specifically genomic integrity), is heavily skewed towards topmost-ranked males, producing polygyny with residual monogamy and bachelordom. Polygyny is ancestral, as in gorilla harems (apparently homologous with human female cliques): originally predation-avoidance grouping, m...

That intimate partner violence (IPV) essentially is female-perpetrated is explained bottom-up from the biological principle that the female is the limiting factor in reproduction, through genetic and neuro-hormonal levels. Female-specific aetiology stems from greater female need for pair-bonding, spurring greater mate-retention behaviours to assuag...

Identity politics (often dubbed political correctness: PC) victim categories (protected characteristics) are shown to be false. Negative attitude is specifically towards males, and evoked by any form of significant difference. Previous findings that misogyny has no scientific basis, with the evidence instead of philogyny and misandry, extend to app...

There is no published science paper demonstrating the existence of ‘misogyny’ defined as the general hostile or negative attitude of men towards women. On the contrary, the notion is not just unsupported but contradicted by all pertinent findings. Data on either implicit or explicit ‘gender attitudes’ show consideration towards females by males eit...

ABSTRACT Research into stress response has exploded in the wake of findings of major sex differences, to show, further, that mechanism is genetically and epigenetically underpinned non-overlapping neuro-hormonal pathway specific to each sex: that is, it is not merely sex-dimorphic but sex-dichotomous; sex-specific. A general principle now appears...

Abstract New Male Studies: An International Journal (NMS) inaugurates its monograph series with the essay In SEX DIFFERENCE EXPLAINED From DNA to Society: Purging Gene Copy Errors, by independent British researcher Steve Moxon. In this monograph Steve argues that all major aspects of male-female human sociality necessarily stem from biological pr...

The function of the sexes is revealed within the context of new understanding that sex maintains genome integrity. Whereas originally evolved features of sex, conserved in early stages of meiosis, repair gross DNA damage, later phases repair fine-scale DNA damage (mutations) via ploidy and the sexes effecting purifying selection. Rather than in ani...

Genital modification functions proximally in both sexes to denude sexual sensitivity, reducing propensity to engage in sex; impacting specifically extra-pair sex. Here distal function diverges: male GMo is controlling (lowering young males' competitiveness with high-status males for young females), whereas female GMo is 'honest signaling' of future...

The confirmation in major reviews of behavioural economics studies that competitiveness is a male (or far more a male than a female) trait is not challenged by efforts to find conditions in which there is apparent failure or partial failure to replicate, because this is mistaken interpretation in not recog-nising confounds. The error is through bas...

Male-specific self-inhibition of violence towards women, corresponding to an evolutionarily highly-conserved male-specific dedicated neural pathway, and a female-specific actual preference in a couple context for physically violent expression of aggression, prompted by oxytocin (the very hormone underpinning pair-bonding): these findings together i...

Though human pair-bonding generally is considered to be male proprietorial control and provisioning, the evidence does not support either of these assumptions. Not only is provisioning relatively lacking and of little impact, but in any case is antecedent to the evolution of human pair-bonding; and the male (in pair-bonding species generically) doe...

ABSTRACT The sexes properly understood from biological principle interact not in terms of dominance / submission but male deference to females, in recognition of the female as the ‘limiting factor’ in reproduction through being the principal direct investor in offspring. The corresponding function of the male is to act as the ‘genetic filter’ to p...

The notion of partner-violence as a male-perpetrated phenomenon is not a scientific position but an amelioration of cognitive-dissonance within a political mindset. Against all the data, this ‘gender paradigm’ persists as a series of staged retreats as new research debunks each in turn. Supposed highly sex-differential injury rates, male unilateral...

Dominance is a biological concept of an asymmetric ‘power’ relationship between (any pair of) individuals, as a result of previous encounters with others biasing likelihood of contesting. That this requires dedicated neural structure shows that dominance is adaptive; and it is usually thought that fitness is increased through dominance (hierarchy)...