Stories by Agustín Fuentes

Agustín Fuentes is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being and Race, Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature.

3D illustration of X and Y chromosomes floating with other chromosomes out of focus in the background

OpinionFebruary 25, 2025

Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex

Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications

Agustín Fuentes

OpinionMay 1, 2023

Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary

Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man

Agustín Fuentes

EvolutionJanuary 20, 2012

Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same Planet

Agustín Fuentes