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The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds

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sciencehabit writes: In the mid-19th century, researchers claimed they could tell the sex of an individual just by looking at their disembodied brain. But a new study (abstract) finds that human brains do not fit neatly into "male" and "female" categories. Indeed, all of our brains seem to share a patchwork of forms; some that are more common in males, others that are more common in females, and some that are common to both. The findings could change how scientists study the brain and even how society defines gender.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Brains+of+Men+and+Women+Aren't+Really+That+Different%2C+Study+Finds%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1XvTBwD"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F12%2F01%2F209200%2Fthe-brains-of-men-and-women-arent-really-that-different-study-finds%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://slashcdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/01/209200/the-brains-of-men-and-women-arent-really-that-different-study-finds?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/01/209200/the-brains-of-men-and-women-arent-really-that-different-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/hJyJE_WOzDM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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