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To: E. Charters who wrote (13060)	6/10/2006 2:22:40 AM
From: Gib Bogle	Respond to of 78419

No question about the different abilities, unacceptable though such notions may be to many feminists and fellow travellers. One of the unexpected results of emancipation is the discovery that women function well in business management - something about the multitude of issues to be kept in mind and in balance. There are still very few female mathematicians (with conspicuous exceptions), but women are well represented now in engineering. Medicine in NZ seems to becoming majority female. I have the impression that students in biology at Auckland are about 75% female. But ... I have to take issue with what you said about piano and guitar playing. There has been plenty of time for women to explore these activities, but I'm not aware of any good female guitar players (I'm not saying they don't exist). I do know of a few good pianists. On racially-linked abilities, from my experiences riding a motorbike around Auckland I'm quite prepared to believe that Asians (I mean Chinese) have a genetically-determined problem with driving, one that is sometimes hazardous to my health.

To: E. Charters who wrote (13060)	6/10/2006 2:15:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78419

That was a good post Charters. DNA says we are all pretty much alike, but within that sameness are some pretty big difference: Pygmies, Watutsi, Eskimos and Inca (blue bloods), sure have physical differences. My guess would be that the larger differences would be how the brain conforms and develops according to the culture and living requirements. We most probably have varieties of imprinting and instincts we are not even aware of. A baby can instinctually recognize 7 facial expressions of the mother coming out of the womb. We know more about the behavior of the Uganda Kob than we do about humans as we have only recently been able to study humans as animals. We do not even know if humans are monogamous by nature. The divorce rate would suggest our mating proclivities differ from the archtype -