18/02/2018
18/02/2018
The Independent reports that tributes have been paid to scientist Ben Barres - a neurobiologist who made groundbreaking discoveries regarding the structure and function of the brain that may have implications for understanding Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative disorders. As a transgender man, Dr Barres made many contributions to the debate around biological determinism in males and female in the human and related species, pointing out that problems in arguments about any innate female or male behaviour in our biology.