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

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Is There a Difference Between Prenatal and Pregnancy?

Some people have argued that well sure we get differences in the adult brain because they have been socialized and the socialization is leading to those differences. Well these brain imaging studies can now be done in fetuses so you can put a pregnant mom in the machine and you can do look at patterns of brain activity in the fetus safe in the second trimester which has been done. So those patterns are evident prenatally when the brain is developing and there are already sex differences in the pattern.

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