Better Call Paul ADDENDUM | The Male / Female Performance Gap in Climbing

For a few weeks after recording the episode on the IRCRA postion statement, some of my comments didn't sit quite right with me. They weren't false, but they weren't the whole story. In this addendum episode we look at a little more of the complete story by examining the paper:

Female excellence in rock climbing likely has an evolutionary origin Published by Collin Carrol in Current Research in Physiology, 2021

Thanks to Irene Di Lauro for sending this paper in!

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