Not exact matches
And certainly no one will want to say that
male and female
brains are «ontologically» different — especially since the genealogy of that line of
thought has historically led to decidedly misogynist judgments on the female intellect.
Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in
Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a
male partner to help raise them,» not whether they
think single mothers per se are bad for society.
Lead author Tim Wilson, a University of Virginia psychologist, doesn't yet know why we get sidetracked so easily, but he doesn't
think our social media addictions or even testosterone - addled
male brains are entirely to blame.
Researchers now
think that in female animals, the presence of estrogen promotes female development at specific life stages, and having a second X chromosome makes female
brains different from those of
males.
The
brain of a female migraineur looks so unlike the
brain of a
male migraineur, asserts Harvard scientist Nasim Maleki, that we should
think of migraines in men and women as «different diseases altogether.»
«We
think the
male brain has more hardware to handle the graphics, like a souped - up computer,» Falk says.
Then during puberty, another wash of testosterone results in distinctly
male thoughts — the fodder for all that guns - girls - and - parties cinema — in the previously testosterone - primed
brain.
The skull was from an adult
male just shy of 5 feet (1.5 meters) with a massive jaw and big teeth, but a small
brain, implying limited
thinking capability, said study co-author Marcia Ponce de Leon of the University of Zurich.
It's
thought higher exposure to testosterone in the womb creates a more «
male»
brain by suppressing development of the left side usually responsible for linear reasoning and certain language functions such as grammar and vocabulary.
BUT — I
think if you take a look at evolution, the development of the
male and female
brains (psychologically), it actually really makes sense that women value personality a lot more than men tend to do.
A young
male zombie spends his days roaming the barren and devastated wasteland that is America with limited
thoughts and actions, only able to remember that his name while he was human began with the letter «R» and only yearning to eat the
brains of the few remaining living humans just so he can connect and learn to feel alive again.
Because no matter what you
think about the difference between female and
male brains, when it comes to these artistic and intellectual pursuits, the individual skills are the same for men and women.
Of course there are differences in
male and female canine
brains, and studies have shown that there are differences in the way
male and female dogs
think.