
Iain McGilchrist: We are in a fully deluded world
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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The Difference Between Male and Female Brains
In utero, it is testosterone that causes the right hemisphere to expand. In female brains, there's more overlap between the left and right. This has a consequence that if you have a stroke in a woman, she's more likely to be able to recover using another part of the other hemisphere than a man. And I think that because from an evolutionary point of view, women are absolutely essential, and they're the ones that carry on the species.
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