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

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Sex Differences in Brain and Cognition

There's a mate switching strategies right sometimes people can sort of maintain relationships with more than one person just with the intent of somewhere in the future switching from one main partner to the other. There are about 2,000 or so genes that are differentially expressed in men and women in the human brain if we look some areas are going to be the same in men and woman some areas aregoing to be a little bit different but overall there is an overall pattern of similarities and differences for both sexes. You can predict the sex of the individual based on these brain patterns 93 to 96 percent of the time so you can tell whether that brain came from a boy or a girl or a man or a woman

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