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    Are Male and Female Brains Biologically Different?

    The scientific debate around this question keeps raging, but one neuroscientist says we’re more alike than we think.
    by Taylor Lorenz Jun 25, 2018 2 minutes
    Source: Ted Horowitz / Corbis / Getty

    Updated June 26, 2018

    Pop neuroscience has long been fascinated with uncovering secret biological differences between male and female brains. The question of whether men and women have innately different brains rarely fails to get people riled up. Just last year, the Google engineer James Damore caused an uproar after publishing a detailing the various ways women were biologically different from

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