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“Fun fact: At first, all children’s brains appear exactly the same—female. Yes, you heard right. Female is nature’s default brain setting. (Take that, too, Darwin.) It’s only after a surge in testosterone that boys’ brains begin to take on male attributes, which, if you recall from the previous chapter, means they become wired to respond more to testosterone.”
― Lisa Mosconi, The Menopause Brain