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TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females
(medicalxpress.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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I've seen multiple people suggest hunting and get correctly told thats inaccurate
But would war fighting, or just fighting in general what with our aggression n shit help explain it?
The only times I've noticed this discrepancy in life are when hunting with women of playing competitive FPS games with my wife watching. I'll regularly see and react to things they don't, and are shocked when I shoot the sniper out of the tree on the other side of the map because yes, I did see him and I'm not crazy when I say I see shit flicker gdi
Aliasing also bothers me more than any woman I know, and everyone I know who hates it as much as me is a man
Maybe, and I'm not a biologist or an expert on evolution, so take my uninformed opinion with a big ol' chunk of salt, but I feel like what you're describing is more cultural than biological. Like, generally women just play video games (at least online competitive ones where there's interaction between players, like the ones you're describing) less than men, because those kinds of video games are sort of a hellhole for women. So in general, their eyes probably aren't attuned to things like aliasing and digital sniper glints because that's not something they experience often, not necessarily because their brains aren't as well equipped to recognize those things.
hunting is just an extension of fighting, sooo....
realistically, i think it's probably a little more fundamental than hunting or something, and more to do with the fact that men are generally more muscular, stronger, taller, and probably faster as well. So it's probably just a general evolutionary advantage to benefit those capabilities. For things like hunting, etc.
Could be as simple as humans get so many neurons and need to allocate them across total set of stuff needed for life.
Women need to devote a good % of those to pregnancy mode, while men just have normal mode.
Therefore some functions may have to deal with reduced neuron allocations, because the 'missing' ones are required elsewhere.
Obviously a simplification of things, but with only one way of needing to be men optimize to a different configuration with a different allocation of neurons to match.
this is definitely the simplest, and probably most likely, though possibly not super accurate answer.