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Just some links for now:

- "[Is There Anything Good About Men?](http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm)" by Roy Baumeister.
I'd be *very* interested in reading feminist responses to this, but so far I haven't been able to find any good ones.

- Here's [Caplan](econlog): "[Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap](http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/08/male_variance_a.html)"

- [Bateman's principle](!w) on Wikipedia

- Quora: [Do men have a wider variance of intelligence than women?](https://www.quora.com/Do-men-have-a-wider-variance-of-intelligence-than-women)

- Some other links:

    - <http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/7051/which-sex-has-higher-variance-of-reproductive-rate-in-modern-societies-male-or>
    - <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mam.12012/abstract>