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Originally posted by Enigma Publius
reply to post by skeptic1
i still think that women would develop better problem solving skills than men over the ages because they were disadvantaged from the get go because of their enviroment, they would have to be better at what was offered to them, make better use of it. I often have great trouble getting my ideas across, i am very scatterbrained, so i don't know if that makes sense to ya'll, i'll try to clarify more if i need to, just ask me.
Originally posted by skeptic1
reply to post by mystiq
No, it isn't just education. It is a lot of things, but maybe the question needs to be are men more hardwired for "intelligence" than women due to circumstances in the past leading up to now? And, if so, what determines what is hardwired into our brains and what is hardwired in humans to begin with??
Originally posted by Enigma Publius
reply to post by Enigma Publius
i have been humbled in the last few moments. you and malzypants have made me realize that women are stronger thinkers than men. both of you have gotten right to the core of the matter with such ease and natural grace that i was deeply moved on a genuine, personal level. Kudos to the gals, you have my vote, why aren't you running my country again?
Originally posted by Enigma Publius
reply to post by Enigma Publius
i have been humbled in the last few moments. you and malzypants have made me realize that women are stronger thinkers than men. both of you have gotten right to the core of the matter with such ease and natural grace that i was deeply moved on a genuine, personal level. Kudos to the gals, you have my vote, why aren't you running my country again?
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esearchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been preserved through evolution.
These conserved differences constitute a signature of sex differences in the brain.
Many more obvious gender differences have been preserved throughout primate evolution; examples include average body size and weight, and genitalia design. This study, believed to be the first of its kind, focuses on gene expression within the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is involved in many of the more complex functions in both humans and other primates, including memory, attentiveness, thought processes and language.
The researchers measured gene expression in the brains of male and female primates from three species: humans, macaques, and marmosets. To measure activity of specific genes, the products of genes (RNA) obtained from the brain of each animal were hybridized to microarrays containing thousands of DNA clones coding for thousands of genes. The authors also investigated DNA sequence differences among primates for genes showing different levels of expression between the sexes.
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In two studies of breast-fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise intelligence an average of nearly 7 IQ points if the children had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.