Male & Female Brains Are Different

              Above: The male brain.

Research at the University of Edinburgh indicates that that the brains of men and women are shaped differently. While men’s brains are bigger overall, brains of women tend to have thicker cortices, which are associated with intelligence. We’re going to ask some women to look into that for us and tell us what it all means.

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“Women have bigger brain regions associated with intelligence,” Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz

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