![]() We are concerned, though, that one mistake, treating males as the norm, will be replaced with another namely, treating males and females as two distinct entities. ![]() We strongly believe that this is necessary to ensure that basic research is relevant to all humans. Like Cahill and many others, we welcome more active research on females in basic animal neuroscience. In the recent Cerebrum article, “ Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain,” author Larry Cahill offers his perspective on the nature of sex differences in brain and behavior, and what he considers to be a “counter-reaction” to such research by “anti-sex difference” investigators operating from the “deeply ingrained, implicit, false assumption that if men and women are equal, then men and women must be the same.” We welcome this opportunity to correct some of the misapprehensions and mischaracterizations in this account, and present a more nuanced view of the relations among sex, brain, and gender. Why Males ≠ Corvettes, Females ≠ Volvos, and Scientific Criticism ≠ Ideology ![]()
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