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Science 10 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5434, pp. 1681 - 1682
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1681
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Snails and Tails or Sugar and Spice

A review by Kira Hall

The Two Sexes Growing Up Apart, Coming Together
Eleanor E. Maccoby
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998. 384 pp. $39.95, £25.95. ISBN 0-674-91481-3.

Maccoby examines how human development from infancy into adulthood is affected by gender. She finds childhood experiences in same-sex groups particularly important in shaping subsequent relations between males and females.
The author is at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 51 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8277. E-mail: kira.hall{at}yale.edu

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