About the intelligence issue, I read this news a few days ago and refrained from commenting (although I was surprised [not really] to see the extent of debate about this, elsewhere).

BUT, biologically, males inherit their "intelligence" from their mother's -- it's inherited in the DNA that males inherit from their mother's (maternal DNA) -- while females inherit their intelligence from both parents' DNA (a combination of both paternal and maternal DNA).

Thus, it's impossible to allege that males are more intelligent than females, since males inherit their DNA from their FEMALE mothers.

Ask any geneticist, they'll verify what I've just written.

More specifically, however, males have a different TYPE of intelligence, very generally, than females and vice versa. Has most to do with hormonal differences affecting the intelligence, among a lot of socialization differences.

Anyone, also, who has ever raised a male child simultaneously or nearly so with a female child can quickly see the differences between the two (when they aren't related, as in, not twins) -- and not only are the differences noticable, but very much so as to how the two vary in reactions, interests, activities, responses and far more.

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You are dead on, as well as contradict your initial premise a bit. You say:

Thus, it's impossible to allege that males are more intelligent than females, since males inherit their DNA from their FEMALE mothers.

The DNA "map" that a son gets from mom is a template, which gets drastically influenced by something that happens at puberty, as you mention:

More specifically, however, males have a different TYPE of intelligence, very generally, than females and vice versa. Has most to do with hormonal differences affecting the intelligence, among a lot of socialization differences.

So, it does not follow that just because a male gets the portion of DNA governing intelligence from the mother, that you CANNOT say that males are, on average, smarter than females, given that their intelligence changes due to the influx of hormones at puberty.

Due to the flood of testosterone which influences spatial reasoning, etc., they are likely indeed "smarter" (on an average measure - at the extreme standard deviations) than women - when measured on a scale that places great emphasis on that characteristic for which men have greater aptitude in the extremes.

Socialization does have something to do with it, and an individual, regardless of sex, has a huge degree of latitude to develop skills in math or whatever, but the biological gender differences impact how "smart" each gender tends to be at extremes, depending on what the definition of "smart" happens to be for that measure (as you mention intelligence "types").

lol, mr. bill. we can also take more heat, more cold, more pain and more rads.
Guess what else? Since mammalian DNA imprinting has been solved we can reproduce without you, and maintain the genetic variablity of species homosapiens thru ovum recombination.
We are only keeping you around for, umm, your hidden talents.

I'm from New Orleans. The person who said 'none of your f****** business' was a toruist. I'd place the accent in the Milwaukee/Sheboygan area. Yankees!

Oh, Major. Can't we all just get along?

"Since mammalian DNA imprinting has been solved we can reproduce without you, and maintain the genetic variablity of species homosapiens thru ovum recombination."

Right, I'm sure that's every girls dream.

:)