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Having trouble with the lady in your life? Blame it on her brain.
Experts are finding with increasing frequency that men and women are … wait for it … different — right down to their individual brain cells, The New York Post reports.
"People assume that men and women are interchangeable, and that's just not so," Dr. Marianne Legato, founder of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and author of the 2005 book "Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget" told The Post.
What is it exactly that makes the lads and ladies so distinctly divided?
Legato's research indicates that variations in individual brain cells may prove some time-honored stereotypes to be closer to the truth than you might want to believe. For example:
Women remember things better — even things the guys have long forgotten.
Men are more adept at reading maps.
Men prefer to do things on their own, while women are more likely to enjoy talking and doing things in groups.
And the groan factor doesn't stop there — Legato says women's brains are, in fact, about 10 percent smaller than those of their more manly counterparts, even after their more diminutive statures are taken into account.
But before that news prompts the guys start dancing in the end zones, know this: Legato says that even though the ladies' brains might be smaller, they have more activity between neurons, meaning they "get more brain bang for the buck."
And it seems the differences in the male and female brains may affect everything from the mating game to how a couple fights to whether one's partner is likely to have a wandering eye.
Legato says guys are attracted to a woman with full lips, bright eyes and big hips — all signs of fertility, whereas women dig the dudes with strong jaws, deep voices and a good sense of humor.
"Humor bespeaks intelligence, and health, as in a lack of depression," says Legato.
Hey, I'm a poster boy for humor. I hope Mocha-momma reads that. She always told me that when we first met she didn't think I had a sense of humor. I always told her I didn't think she had big hips. (ooh, I'm gonna pay for that one, curse my sense of humor)
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Humn, I'm thinking about getting a jaw implant & take voice lessons to become a bass singer. As for the other gender, dunno why some guys are attracted to skinny skeletons w/ no hips and no upper body. I mean if I wanted to date someone like that I may as well date one of my buds, oops that didn't come out right, u know what I mean:o)
and all this time i thought all it took was money to lure a woman...
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