Comments | estameguapo: Give me equal equality in equalness, or give me death!

estameguapo

Give me equal equality in equalness, or give me death!

Jul 01, 2005 11:09

I want to bring this back up!Not that these findings say anything or our conclusions contain verbage about who is more intelligent or valuable or capable, because our study does not contain anything about that, because men and women are equally profound and brilliant in profoundness of cognoscence and intelligence and profundity of equality in ( Read more... )

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pashionflower July 1 2005, 18:30:04 UTC

no, evolution has just randomly and by chance created two types of brains with equally intelligent behavior. it's basically a freak occurrence, that's all. (in sarcastic tone)

-- lasttoknow0 July 2 2005, 18:06:34 UTC

Oh no! Someone said "designed" to describe something that was evolved! Science is crumbling!

Or maybe its just a convenient way of describing something that has evolved into a specific purpose? No no, what was I thinking. I'll have my torch and pitchfork ready by the end of the day. We can storm the biology building and burn all the textbooks!

Re: -- estameguapo May 15 2006, 19:06:56 UTC

I was just reading through old posts and I realized that I never followed up on this one. And I want to. Not as much as I want to get pitch forks and burn things, but enough to go to the trouble to do it ( ... )

Re: -- lasttoknow0 May 15 2006, 22:49:10 UTC

Now two brains that are so different and so the same coevolved independently?
Pardon me if I missed a part of the article but it doesn't seem to be the case that men and women have two different brains. Both sexes have both grey and white matter present, and the difference is in the amount of usage in each type. Not two different brains, but two different types of the same brain. Not evolving independantly either; I'm not sure where that came from.

How often has this happened? How many male and female critter brains are totally different and also the same?
I have no idea. But if it happened with us, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in a lot of other species.

If brains are evolving independently, wouldn’t equality be a fluke? Wouldn’t it be far more likely to have one gender be superior to the other in brain function?You bet. But if you have two sexes of the same species, who are in no way evolving independantly, how surprising is it that their somewhat different brain usages are kept balanced by whatever selective forces ( ... )

Re: -- estameguapo May 15 2006, 23:17:57 UTC

Both sexes have both grey and white matter present, and the difference is in the amount of usage in each type.

The structure is all different too though, I suppose that could be the result of one little gene change that did a sort of brain-module-relocation-thing, but I dont know.

I still dont like it! I would be happy to come up with all sorts of stories about how it could be selectively advantageous to have an immobile brainless gender. I expect we would have to revisit our conversation about predictions though. I wonder if that conversation might make a mess of your arguments too.

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