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Do you think it's true that men mature slower than women and if so, why?
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Ref: the slower maturation of males from pre-birth onwards, I would refer you to the definitive explanation found in:
'Males and Females' by Corinne Hutt
Penguin Education, Harmondsworth, 1972.
Dr. Hutt cogently explains why the genetic 'readout' is slower when a Y chromosome is present in the sex-differentiating chromosomes at locus 23.
All genetic material is read and acted upon when the configuration is XY(normal male)
including all the aberrants, whether good or bad, whereas these are skipped in the XX
pattern. The distribution of all genetically determined features is therefor wider and shallower in the male. Maturation is one of these features.
Many (most?) mothers will testify that their female offspring walk, talk and read earlier than their boy-babies, and generally benefit from the oestrogen with which they are endowed. This benefit continues until menopause.
In the educational stakes, girls are generally 4 or 5 years ahead of the boys; this is a sound argument for the provision of all-girl schools.
There is more, lots more, but I would urge the reading of this fine analysis of sex development and its consequences.
'Males and Females' by Corinne Hutt
Penguin Education, Harmondsworth, 1972.
Dr. Hutt cogently explains why the genetic 'readout' is slower when a Y chromosome is present in the sex-differentiating chromosomes at locus 23.
All genetic material is read and acted upon when the configuration is XY(normal male)
including all the aberrants, whether good or bad, whereas these are skipped in the XX
pattern. The distribution of all genetically determined features is therefor wider and shallower in the male. Maturation is one of these features.
Many (most?) mothers will testify that their female offspring walk, talk and read earlier than their boy-babies, and generally benefit from the oestrogen with which they are endowed. This benefit continues until menopause.
In the educational stakes, girls are generally 4 or 5 years ahead of the boys; this is a sound argument for the provision of all-girl schools.
There is more, lots more, but I would urge the reading of this fine analysis of sex development and its consequences.
