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#747 David Geary - Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences (Pt. 2)

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How Do Those Brain Differences Translate Into Differences in Cognitive Function?

There are in species where males engage in a lot of physical fighting and primates there are certain areas that tend to be enlarged and integrated including the amygdala, larger males and females. The brain network has been studied in other primates and as I mentioned in the book it seems to be elaborated in boys and men relative to girls and women so that is you know a brain for fighting is not typically studied by cognitive psychologists or cognitive neuroscientists but if we actually look at the anatomy of it we do see sex differences there.

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