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Brain scientists haven't been able to find major differences between women's and men's brains, despite over a century of searching

  • Written by Ari Berkowitz, Presidential Professor of Biology; Director, Cellular & Behavioral Neurobiology Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma
imageAre there innate differences between female and male brains?SebastianKaulitzki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes. Gustave Le Bon found men’s...

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