 |
 |
At 02:20 PM 8/1/97 -0400, you wrote: >Dear List-friends... I found the following interesting (and have always >thought that male brain cells were kinda a mystery, anyway!) <grinning, >ducking & running> > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] >--------------------- >Male Brain Cells a Mystery > <---- snip ----> >The researchers found that the average number of brain cells in men was 23 >billion while the female average was about 19 billion. > >Reporting their findings in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Pakkenberg >said she was very surprised by the results and is not sure what they mean. > >"Right now it is a mystery," she said. "The knowledge we already have shows >men are not smarter than women. The average IQ score comes out the same in >males and females." > Hmmmmmmm, maybe the reason the function of those extra male brain cells is unknown is because the researcher is only 4 billion brain cells short. :-}) Jeff