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[quote]I stumbled across this report about the human brain and the differences in male and female brains. Dr Witelson and Dr Harvey worked with human brains. Dr Witelson has been conducting research on human brains for over 30 years. She has a collection of more than 100 human brains in her lab, taken with the permission of terminally sick patients with their permission after they died. Dr Harvey has the brain of Albert Einstein still preserved.

In short the report says the male and female brains are formed different. At birth they are very similar, but later environmental factors and feedback from our actions affects its development, especially in childhood and the middle age. Where as the male brain is on average bigger than female brain, but female brain is more dense with neurons in certain areas than the male brain. This gives men and women the same intelligence and intellectual capacities on average, becuase it is the neurons in the brain that do its work. So men and women are equally smart even though their brain structures are different.

They also found that Einstein's brain is different from the other peoples' brains they had. The part of the brain responsible for mathematics and conceptual thinking is 15% bigger than average, even though Einstein's brain is smaller than the average male brain. So they deduced (also using other samples) that size of the brain does not make you more intelligent. In this part of Einstein's brain, there were more cells servicing each neuron than the other brains they studied. Another difference they found in his brain was that two lobes of certain part were joined at birth, which does not happen to everyone.

Anyway, I suggest that you all read this report for the sake of gaining knowledge. These scientists have done decades of research so please respect their views and work.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050616/ts_latimes/deepdarksecretsofhisandherbrains[/quote]

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