DARWIN stated women are less intelligent because of brain size...believe it?

Question

He cited lack of professional occupations women possessed as proof, as of 1850.

As answer to former Darwin question, he failed to take into account the cultural and philosophic foundation of Europeans, which was Judaic-Christianity.

Answer 1

incorrect. women actually have the ability to process more things at once than men, they are good multitaskers. however, the other side of the coin is they have a harder time separating things, including emotional responses to non-emotional topics. men usually can focus on individual tasks a little easier, and tend to view things a little more "black and white" which makes decisions a little easier.

i'm not making this up, do a little research.

so, that theory was incorrect, which has no bearings on his other theories, keep in mind. evolution DOES exist. just because theres holes in the theory doesnt mean its wrong. and just because evolution exists doesnt mean theres no god either. the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

and for anyone who doesnt believe it, look up "gravity". its still just a theory, its not proven. so the next time you need solid proof of something, keep in mind we cant prove why you dont fly off the face of the earth.

Answer 2

It's pretty hard to be a doctor when no college will admit you and no one will be your patient because you are a woman. At that time it was unheard of for a woman to have a professional career. Some did, but were looked down upon. That doesn't mean they weren't just as smart as the men.

Now, girls usually outscore boys in standardized tests, more of them go to college, and overall they make better grades. Most law school students are women and a VAST majority of animal doctors are women. But I chalk this up to maturity at that age, not intelligence.

I don't think that one sex is smarter than the other, we just use our brains differently. Men try to find the answer to a specific problem quickly, a woman usually will analyze the situation a bit more. Men use their sense of where North and South are to find their way driving, while women are more likely to use landmarks. If two people are talking to a man at once, he tends to ignore one and listen to the other. A woman will usually try to listen to both and miss a little of both. One isn't the better way, they are just DIFFERENT.

Answer 3

Only in sociology would people be arguing about what someone said over 150 years ago. Darwin was a man of his time, so he had some of the basis of his time. This does not detract one iota from the general validity ot the theory of evolution by natural selection. He made a few mistakes here, especially in the transmission of heritable traits. He thought blending; he was wrong. I guess he was wrong about women, though some of the moronic answers here, show me he was not wrong about social science.

Answer 4

A brilliant mind can nevertheless be wrong once in a while.

Einstein admitted to a massive "flub" in his theory of relativity, which amounted to his own prejudice against the idea of an expanding Universe. Does that mean we should value his genius any less?

Darwin was a product of the age in which he lived. If his foresight was greater than his contemporaries, but not as vast as ours...why should that come as a surprise?

Answer 5

In general if brain sieze is smaller, the animal with the smaller brain could be, in general, considered, less intelligent. HOWEVER, it cannot be extrapolated to female human, because the sieze idfference of the brain between male and female is firly small.

Think of it this way: they say that the size of the (male's) "that" organ is not important, it is more important as to how he uses it, or if he can use it at all. It is the same thing with the male and female brains: the size difference is negligible, it all depends how it is used.

Answer 6

The overall size of a brain doesn't reflect efficiency of cognitive function. A lack of professional occupations is hardly proof of anything other than the existence of cultural conditioning and social suppression. Ergo, I am eruditer than Darwin.

Note to "vette": Darwin never stated that we came from monkeys. The theory is that we have a common ancestor and it is one to which I subscribe.

Answer 7

Let's see, an elephant has a brain the size of a loaf of bread, therefore elephants are geniuses? AND I have seen an elephant count to ten. So yes, men are smarter than women, but if a guy needs an important question answered, he should seek the council of an elephant.

Answer 8

he may have had a valid point, we are accumulating knowledge by building blocks from the past. we all feel slighted when we are intelligent enough to say that doesn't apply to me. but not to get u off on a rant, the wealth of education & knowledge was still being transfered through men in world discovery and travel to make more discoveries, it is extremely deep to go to sea and come back alive in another time, much of this can't be transfered to woman, until the conveinces of better was to accomodate them was devised, my point is to accept the past as building blocks to learn more not tear apart the building blocks till we have no information at all as a link to the past and how we got here, if people raise hell they get books band and gaps can be reconstructed with even more crap than we have now

Answer 9

Women are not intelligent enough to give birth??

From what Darwin came from?? From a Coconut Palm Tree?

Answer 10

Now, just hold on there a darn minute! Aren't we the ones (us women) who find your lost sock when you the man can't find it? Aren't we the ones who have to take your clothes to the dry cleaners, organize a huge extravaganza when you invite the boss to dinner? Yes I believe women have less brain power?