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?
Women’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. Furthermore, women have lower levels of hemoglobin, the molecule in the blood that carries oxygen to tissues. Lower hemoglobin levels might seem to require larger lung volume, to compensate for the reduced amount of oxygen circulating through the lungs. But women’s lungs are smaller, not larger and we don’t know why.
Spaceflight
We are going to outer space so who’s better to handle this, men or women?
Nature vs Nature?
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 intertwining factors) to turn us into the people we become.
The Intelligent Genome: How Epigenetics Mediates Adaptation
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…
How focusing on women is impacting how we think about the unique biology of men
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.
The Difference in How We Talk
What Are You Talking About? The Difference in How We Talk We’ve just learned that women hear and process what they hear better than men do. But the ease with…
The Body Language Divide
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.
The Grieving Brain
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.
Lost in Translation
Perhaps our difficulties in successfully talking to one another have to do with inaccuracies in the way we analyze the information we’re given.