Science depends on the vision of scientists. And until relatively recently, on a historical scale, women were very rare in research. Darwin and Wallace created the theory of evolution by selection in the Victorian era, a period dominated by tradition. Although Wallace later declared himself a socialist and proved to be an ally of the women’s liberation movement, and Darwin wrote The Descent of Man, which emphasized sexual selection as the prerogative of females in evolution, the female perspective was missing from later evolutionary paradigms. Lately, scientists and philosophers of science are beginning to put their stamp on these ideas. Evolutionary scientists can work on adjusting old paradigms, new paradigms, which should contribute to the development of science.
How do the sexes appear in nature? What is feminine and masculine in nature? What role do they play? But more importantly, how can developments be interpreted from women’s point of view?
