Discovering The Differences Between Men And Women


by Jennifer Kelton - Date: 2007-07-19 - Word Count: 727 Share This!

Did you know that men and women consist of nearly the same number of cells? Here, a quote from Wikipedia:A human being is a multicellular eukaryote consisting of an estimated 100 trillion cells. It should be noted that there is no
consensus on the actual number of cells in the human body; estimates vary widely. As a species, humans are primates and can be distinguished from other primates by their more highly evolved brains. Even though humans are multicellular animals, many of the basic life processes of human cells are basically the same as in simple unicellular eukaryotes such as yeast and even prokaryotes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_biology

On a whim, I went to Google and searched for "men vs. women's brains" because I wanted to see what the Internet world would say. Now, I certainly wasn't shocked to see a ton of information cascading over the Web - all of it discussing the on-going battle of the sexes. But, this information didn't just come from the usual sources: researchers, equal rights activists, professors and others. No, instead, I found a lot of information from typical men and women - just like you and me. Each one debated whether or not men or women had the bigger brain and which was more complex, more sex-driven and even more efficient. I even found a discussion of male birds! Then, there was the discussion of which brain runs at a higher temperature: a man's or a woman's. Oh, and I bet you'd like to know which sex uses more words in a day, too. someone on allphilosophy.com states: "Many authors and researchers have said that men use fewer words per day than women.

Depending on which study you believe (if any), the 'word gap' can be anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 words a day." Now, by saying "if any," isn't the person disqualifying a lot of the surveys? I mean, it already seems like something very difficult to prove. What it boils down to, though, is why do we care, and who in the world actually followed people around counting the number of words they said in a day?

John Grey's Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus discusses a lot of the differences men and women have. But, do we really need a book to tell us that we're different? I mean, we learn it from our own experiences. Like my childhood where a boy used to bully a lot of my neighborhood's girls. He used to chase us, knock us down and take our shoes, which he would toss into nearby bushes. Now, in this case, was this boy producing too much testosterone, or was he a victim of bad parenting? I don't know, but I never got this from any of the girls I grew up with.

Grey has fifteen books that speak specifically about men and women, and he's sold somewhere over thirty million in the last ten years. They've also been printed in forty or more languages around the globe. In any major bookstore you go to, you'll find one of his books - guaranteed - because they sell. In fact, trying to understand how men and women act is one of the bigger businesses in publishing, but still, no one has found the secret to what makes men and women run.

Now, there's been a lot of documented information about men and women, and a lot of it's never been printed. The secrets, though, can be traced all the way back to the beginning of man. I sometimes think about an early Homo sapiens woman sitting in a cave, rubbing her pregnant belly, hungry and cold. She probably thought about her mate, running around and copulating with many other women in her tribe. But, as we know, that was an important step in our evolution. Otherwise, we may have ended up mutants or extinct.

Now, we all agree we have a lot of differences between us. It's true, but, remember what it boils down to is our cells are very similar, and they always have been. Sitting at the bar and working on this, I got the idea to ask four guys what the first thing that popped into their head when
I said "men and women."

The first guy responded, "Couple."

The second said, "Controversy."

Number three quickly stated, "Opposite."

The last simply stated, "Sex."

That might be the best summary we could've ever asked for.

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Jennifer Kelton is a writer and CEO. She dispenses her dating advice on DailyDatingAdvice.com . Through her social research and own practical experience, Jennifer has become an expert on men and women, which she discusses in her books and articles.

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