Sexual dimorphism in the vertebrate nervous system

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Many sex differences in the structure of vertebrate nervous systems have been discovered in the past twenty years. The recency of these discoveries is not due to any technological advance; indeed, many of the most interesting of these neural sexual dimorphisms can be detected with nineteenth century methods. Nor can there be much doubt that when the behavior of the sexes differs markedly, there must be sex...

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