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Are there ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains? Computers can see a distinction, but they rely strongly on differences in head size – The Conversation AU

Machine-learning algorithms can tell male from female brains. New research shows they might just be noticing that men have larger heads.

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How useful are the well-known and hotly contested categories of male brain and female brain?
Among experts, nobody really questions that anatomical sex differences in the brain exist. But since the advent of brain science, the scientific community has been divided over how many differences there are, which ones have been definitively proven, how large or small they are, and what they actually mean.
And, over the past several years, a new debate has been brewing among experts. Do anatomical di…

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