Women have brains that are on average eleven percent smaller and 200 grams lighter than men’s. The Dutch neuroscientist Iris Sommer writes this in her book ‘Vrouwenbrein’. “It doesn’t fit the feminist picture at all, but the difference is too big to ignore,” says Sommer. “Although I did ask myself whether that would make women less smart?”
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Why are the male and female brain different?
“For the time being it can only be guessed”, says Iris Sommer. “It’s tempting to say that there had to be a different brain …
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