Original sentence: Beginning with modern scientific discoveries, Mansfield appropriates them for insights on how these innate biological realities might exert an influence on gender identity and gender role preferences.Mansfield then proceeds to literature, drawing on Homer, Kipling, and Hemingway to support his thesis that manliness has been a perpetual component of the male psyche and behavior
Edited sentence: Beginning with appeals to modern scientific discoveries, Mansfield appropriates these insights to offer essentialist claims that innate biological realities exert a determining influence upon gender and the expression of traits related to that gender.Mansfield then proceeds to literature, drawing on Homer, Kipling, and Hemingway to support his thesis that "manliness" has been a perpetual component of the male psyche and behavior