Chronos wrote:
>Shadow Dancer wrote:
>> It is now a generally accepted belief that the smaller gross weight
of the
>> female brain has no significance other than that of the smaller
average size
>> of the female.
>>Does this mean the fatter a chick gets, the dumber she gets?
I think what they're trying to say here is that women have a skeletal
structure that is generally smaller in proportion to a man's. A
smaller skull would obviously have to contain a smaller brain,
although the structures may also be proportionately smaller.
However, there are more factors to consider than brain weight itself:
brain folding and convolutions; neural complexity; neural connections;
types of brain cells; size and complexity of the different brain
structures governing behavior; etc.
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