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This article claims, > Last time we discovered that the brain of a woman is composed of two different types of cells. but if you actually read the last articl

by DougBTX 11y ago

This article claims, > Last time we discovered that the brain of a woman is composed of two different types of cells. but if you actually read the last article, it has this example of mixed types of cells: > Surprisingly, there are some human females who also show a rather similar calico pattern ... for a very small number of women, if you were to look closely on a hot day, you would see a calico pattern appear on their skin. The "very small number of women" gets quickly forgotten, suddenly it is all cells in all females: > Females, both in their bodies, and their brains, are a patchwork of two different types of cells and the "very small number" caveat is completely forgotten by the second article.

Anderkent 11y ago
The "very small number" applies to having visible calico skin pattern, not having two X chromosomes, a random one disabled in each cell.
speeder 11y ago
This to me looks like the "very small number" refers to the ones where this is visible, not to the amount of them that has somewhere mosaic-style cell patterns. For example it is widely known now that if not most women, all women have mosaic patterns on their retina, this not only explains differences in disabilities (like the ocular albinism in the article, but also daltonism), but in perception: While men can see 3 primary colours, women can see 6, it is of course 2 kinds of each other, but still 6, this might explain why women treat colour differently than men (example: women are more interested in the colour of home decoration and clothes, they give more names to colours than men do, they can choose between two very similar nail polish colours when most men don't notice the difference, and so on). Why is that of course veers in the theoretical, the best guess is that while men is better to track motion, probably because they were the primary hunters, women are better in dealing with other types of food (for example colour is important to figure how good to eat vegetables are... there is a reason why farming corporations improve the colour and shape of their fruits, instead of improving the taste). EDIT: someone posted a video elsewhere on the thread about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
rootlocus 11y ago
That very small number of women are those on which you can observe the pattern on their skin. However, the two types of cells (the cell calico pattern) are present in all females.
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by DougBTX 11y ago

Anderkent 11y ago

The "very small number" applies to having visible calico skin pattern, not having two X chromosomes, a random one disabled in each cell.

speeder 11y ago

This to me looks like the "very small number" refers to the ones where this is visible, not to the amount of them that has somewhere mosaic-style cell patterns. For example it is widely known now that if not most women, all women have mosaic patterns on their retina, this not only explains differences in disabilities (like the ocular albinism in the article, but also daltonism), but in perception: While men can see 3 primary colours, women can see 6, it is of course 2 kinds of each other, but still 6, this might explain why women treat colour differently than men (example: women are more interested in the colour of home decoration and clothes, they give more names to colours than men do, they can choose between two very similar nail polish colours when most men don't notice the difference, and so on). Why is that of course veers in the theoretical, the best guess is that while men is better to track motion, probably because they were the primary hunters, women are better in dealing with other types of food (for example colour is important to figure how good to eat vegetables are... there is a reason why farming corporations improve the colour and shape of their fruits, instead of improving the taste). EDIT: someone posted a video elsewhere on the thread about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw

rootlocus 11y ago

That very small number of women are those on which you can observe the pattern on their skin. However, the two types of cells (the cell calico pattern) are present in all females.

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