Priscille Touraille is a social anthropologist, CNRS researcher in the multidisciplinary lab “Éco-anthropologie & ethnobiologie” (research team of human population genetics) of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. Her research interests include the anthropology of gender, namely, how gender thinking establishes itself cross-culturally and the possibility that gender regimes could have had influenced biological characteristics, as, for instance, the sexual dimorphism of stature or of hairiness. She is currently working on epistemological issues regarding the use of sex and gender concepts in the social and life sciences