Inequality between men and women

1999/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Biologia

It has long been known that the brain of man is greater than that of woman in the world of science. But so far it has not been possible to know if this size difference affects different sexes. D. Albany University Anthropologist Falk believes that brain size is an inheritance of evolution, caused by the different behavior of male and female.

Falke discovers that males of some species of rodents and monkeys during the reproductive period carry out large migrations in search of the female, which has made some areas of the male's brain have developed more than in the female. The duration of the species has been based on the capacity of search of the male, so it has developed more the area in which the brain of the male processes the visual information. For Falk there has been a similar phenomenon in the human being, which has resulted in men having skills to perform various activities related to vision.