“Male” and “female” should be swapped with “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing” in science, according to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project.
Alternatives to terms like “male” and “female” and “mother” and “father” should be sought in science because they assume that sex is binary and heterosexuality is the norm, a group of researchers from the US and Canada suggests.
The group has called on the scientific field to use words that are more “inclusive and precise,” according to a, which has three researchers part of the initiative. UBC assistant professor Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor said the undertaking began from a Twitter conversation between a few people about terminology that is potentially harmful.
“Survival of the fittest” could be linked to “eugenics, ableism and social Darwinism,” researchers said, so they advise using “natural selection” and “survival differences” instead.Getty Images/iStockphoto
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