Mary Trump's book: A revelation that triggered Rick Wilson

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60. My bio professor in college started me down that road, I think.

He posited his own personal theory that women were biologically stronger than men. Men were physically stronger, but women had them biologically. He said if you look at traits that are recessive, from something as mundane as hair loss, through color blindness, to hemophilia, a man only needs one recessive gene for the trait to manifest itself, a woman needs two. That, and more miscarriages, still births and crib deaths were boy babies. The ratio of autism is 8-1, boys to girls. And men die younger. That, of course, is probably due to the fact you put up with us. His belief was that something was missing off the Y chromosome that is present on the X, and that it's probably an immunity factor.