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New Scientst Article

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/ This article, written by Jessica Hamzelou, writes about the new evidence that proves there is no such thing as a "male" or "female brain". It reveals that most people have a mix of male and female brain features and it also supports the idea that gender is non-binary. Anelis Kaiser from the University of Bern, Switzerland says, "This evidence that human brains cannot be categorised into two distinct classes is new, convincing, and somehow radical". To test the theory Dapna Joel, from Tel Aviv University in Israel, and her colleagues examining differences in brain scans taken from 1400 people aged between 13 and 8. They looked at shape and size in different areas of the brain and found averaged across many people, sex differences in brain structure do exist, but an individual brain is likely to be just that: individual, with a mix of features confi...