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Are Brains Male or Female?

Are Brains Male or Female?

In this TEDx Talk (2012), Prof. Daphna Joel explores the myth that men are from Mars and women from Venus because men have male brains and women have female brains. She challenges the myth using evidence from neuroscience demonstrating that sex differences in the brain could be opposite under different conditions, and presents for the first time her hypothesis (which she later confirmed in the brains of humans and animals) that brains are unique mosaics of male and female characteristics