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Slight male navigational advantage likely due to cultural differences, researchers find (phys.org)

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A team of psychologists, social scientists, philosophers and evolutionary researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence suggesting that the slight advantage males have in navigation ability is likely due to differences in the ways male and female children are raised.

In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes how they studied navigational skills in multiple species to find out if there might be an evolutionary basis for one gender or the other having better skills.

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[–] Zeth0s 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately it is not, yours however is uninformed. One doesn't measure genetics in meters of DNA. The difference between chimps and humans is just 1% of genome, and their difference are not mostly cultural because they have almost identical DNA. Genetics is so complex that changes in a single gene can have enormous difference in the physiology of a system.

There are a lot of misconception about genetics and males/females differences, such that their differences are almost all cultural. Mainly because people confuse sexes and genders

[–] bouh 1 points 11 months ago

And this is completely beside the point.

I was talking about your assertion about statistics. It's complete bullshit because statistics don't differentiate between biology and culture by themselves.

Hopefully this shorter version is easier to understand.