Gender and Body Fat
Thursday, 25 May 2023
If Leptin regulates overall body mass, what factors are responsible for women’s and men’s different body shapes? Classically, women look like pears and men like apples.
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What’s the difference between men’s and women’s lungs
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
men’s lungs are smaller than those of men. Before you say “I knew it,” I want to tell you something surprising: the lungs are smaller in women even when we adjust for smaller size of women’s bodies.
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Nature versus Nature?
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Perhaps no question sparks more controversy than whether children assume sex roles as a result of their biology or the socialization they’re exposed to. The answer, of course, is probably not an “either/or” but a “with” – some combination of the socialization we receive interacts with our natural biology (itself a knot of complicated and
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The Intelligent Genome: How Epigenetics Mediates Adaptation
Monday, 03 April 2023
Marianne J. Legato, MD, PhD (hon.c.), FACP GENDER AND THE GENOME Volume 1, Number 3 The world we are living in seems to be in an unprecedented state of perpetual crisis: nations are changing leadership and direction; a new level of life-threatening bellicosity saturates the daily news. The planet itself seems to be in a
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How focusing on women is impacting how we think about the unique biology of men
Thursday, 16 March 2023
One of the most unexpected and valuable benefits of thinking so deeply and meticulously regarding the nature of women's biology, surprisingly, has been a new view of how to investigate the unique biology of men
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The Difference in How We Talk
Thursday, 23 February 2023
we’ve just learned that women hear and process what they hear better than men do. But the ease with which women understand language extends to producing it as well. Women find verbal communication easier and have richer vocabularies than men.
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The Body Language Divide
Saturday, 18 February 2023
We’ve discussed the greater ease with which women interpret non-verbal cues, so it won’t come as a surprise that women use more of them to communicate as well. Women tend to use facial expressions, verbal rhythm and tone, and physical gestures to convey information and emotion.
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Lost in Translation
Monday, 13 February 2023
Perhaps our difficulties in successfully talking to one another have to do with inaccuracies in the way we analyze the information we’re given.
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The Grieving Brain
Monday, 13 February 2023
The end of a romantic relationship is truly agonizing. I remember feeling furious as I imagined the cad who might one day break my daughter’s heart. At the time, my husband consoled me by pointing out that she was five years old and safe—at least for a while.
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The Cost of Men’s Sports
Wednesday, 04 January 2023
One of the most startling and unexpected events in sports is the sudden death during the play of a young athlete. Herodotus recorded the death of the Athenian’s fleetest runner, Pheidippides, who had been sent to seek help from Sparta during the Persian invasion; he ran 167 miles to reach the Spartans, the raced back
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