By Alicia Centelles
Einstein's or Marie Curie's?
him. The second fisherman wished to be four times smarter than the smartest man in the world, and the mermaid granted him.
The third wanted to be
ten times smarter than any man in the world, and when the mermaid asked him if
he was sure, he said yes. Then the mermaid transformed him into a woman.
This curious tradition
inevitably came to mind when we learned the news that originates this work: an
American anthropologist states that the male brain is larger than the female
one.
More than a Hundred Grams of Difference
American anthropologist
Dean Faulk claimed to have analyzed the anatomical structure of hundreds of
people, and that she compared the brains of men and women of equal height and
weight.
The researcher, in a
report published by Chilean newspaper La Tercera, explained that at studying
subjects weighing 60 kilograms, the results were a brain of 1373 grams on
average, while women reached 1256.
However, Dr. Faulk
clarified the bigger size in men´s brain is not because they have superior
congenital abilities, which differentiate us from primates.
Women Recover Quickly
The announcement by American researcher Dean Faulk about the larger size of the male brain, provoked an immediate local controversy in Chile.
In this regard,
Francisco Aboitiz, researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the
University of Chile, agreed that indeed, the size of the brain does not imply a
substantial difference regarding the capacities of both sexes.
The specialist has
especially studied the part of the brain known as corpus callosum, which joins the right hemisphere to the left one. Another
Chilean scientist believes that, for this reason, women recover quickly when
they suffer neurological trauma.
Controversies aside, don´t
you think it would be very interesting to know which brain is bigger:
Einstein's or Marie Curie's?
1 comment:
A very interesting article. I can´t understand how so many people still think women are inferior.
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