His Brain, Her Brain

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Boy or girl? Even before a person is born, that’s the first thing everyone wants to know - underscoring just how much value human societies of all types place on gender.

In His Brain, Her Brain, we take a closer look at the anatomical, chemical, and functional differences in the brains of men and women - as well as some surprising similarities. For instance, studies of infants find few differences in cognitive skills between boys and girls; but there is no denying that boys love trucks, whereas girls prefer dolls.

While some gender differences are evident even on the first day of a baby’s life, most of these discrepancies start out small but get amplified by our gender-obsessed culture. Tea parties and wrestling matches leave their stamp on growing brains, but the gap that separates boys and girls would be less noticeable if parents encouraged activities such as reading for boys and video games for girls.

Few sex disparities are as hardwired as popular accounts make them out to be. A better understanding of the real - and imagined - differences between his brain and her brain can help us overcome cultural biases, improve communication, and strengthen relationships.

©2017 by Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc. Scientific American is a registered trademark of Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing

Interesting! To say the least.

This book offers a succinct overview of both biosychology and external influences on the shaping and development of the male and female brains without reading like a scientific symposium. Entertaining and informative, it discusses in depth how social influences affect the actions of men and women and also provides case studies that support the absolute differences in physiology between males and females.

full of unscientific and even irrelevant bullshit

there is some interesting stuff in the beginning and in the end, but in between (from about last chapters of the first part till almost the very end) it's filled with either unscientific, literary, pseudophylosofphical bullshit or just irrelevant crap. not just that, they also tell hours of tedious stories about authors of work being discussed.
also, chapters are not connected with each other well.

scientific American? no that's more of a poetic thirldwordian