If you are interested in reading about biological differences between men and women this book is a good read. Why do men and women act differently? Why are men generally more aggressive than women? How the biological and social factors influence our behaviour as an individual? The book is loaded with research work done in this field on humans and various other species like rats, monkeys, birds, chimpanzees, gorillas. The author is a pultzier prize winner. If one is familiar with human biology its an added advantage while reading.Some interesting findings:
* Inverse relationship of immune system with testosterone where as linear realtionship with estradiol.
* Androgen comes from greek word for man where as Estrogen comes from greek word for frenzy
* In the past ovaries were removed to control hysteria and moodiness in women
* Guinnes world record- Soviet women having 69 offsprings and Mongolian monarch Genghis Khan having 888 kids
* How people view erotic films:
Women- prefer one that builds to a relationship, slowly evolving into sexual relation
Men- complain that those stories take too long to get to the - you know-point
* Coolidge effect
* Rape- comes from latin word "rapere", which refers to seizing of property
* Women seem to give directions in terms of landmark and men in distance terms
* Heart pumps 9000 litres of blood in a day
2 comments:
o reminds me of the test i took on the bbc health website to find out the gender/sex of my brain. turned out im perfectly balanced ...its kinda scary in a way haha
you should try that out if you are interested and its still available
- rz
Hehe good perfectly balanced.....I already took test sometime back..if u referring to this one http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml .Mine turned out to be man type.
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