If people aren't willing to engage with that question, they don't deserve to argue with you :->
It's a perfectly good question. And the answer is, according to what I've read, "both".
We can tell this at least partially because the structures don't vary by gender, per se, but with testosterone levels. And those are largely confluent with gender, but not entirely, so we can look at high testosterone women and low testosterone men, and see the differences there too.
And of course culture affects our minds - and our minds _are_ our brains, so the way we're treated is going to have an effect on the structure of our brains.
Teasing the two apart is very hard, of course. But there's a fair chunk of evidence that both have an effect, in ways that are sometimes different and sometimes the same.
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Date: 2008-Jan-29, Tuesday 15:15 (UTC)It's a perfectly good question. And the answer is, according to what I've read, "both".
We can tell this at least partially because the structures don't vary by gender, per se, but with testosterone levels. And those are largely confluent with gender, but not entirely, so we can look at high testosterone women and low testosterone men, and see the differences there too.
And of course culture affects our minds - and our minds _are_ our brains, so the way we're treated is going to have an effect on the structure of our brains.
Teasing the two apart is very hard, of course. But there's a fair chunk of evidence that both have an effect, in ways that are sometimes different and sometimes the same.