Sexing the baby: Part 2 applying dynamic systems theory to the emergences of sex-related differences in infants and toddlers

► To understand gendered aspects of health and disease study developmental dynamics. ► To study gender as an emergent property, we apply the concept of soft assembly. ► Physical, perceptual, cognitive and emotional experience shape the body. ► In part male and female bodies differ to the extent that infants differ in experience. ► Individual variability can serve as the substrate for the emergence of group differences.