The Neuroscience of Empathy

Sally Kohn: There are neurological differences, but we need to understand these are by and large for the most part kind of things. She says if you don't like materialist sort of XX, XY chromosome thing, how would you answer the question, what is a woman? Kohn: You can almost put it upside down. It's flipping the question backwards. And so from a biological perspective, as I mentioned, sex is determined by how an organism is organized for reproduction.