If there's one question we never tire of, it's whether men and women speak or feel or think in fundamentally different ways. Do women talk more than men? Are their brains hard-wired for empathy? Can innate differences explain men's and women's career choices? This is today's iteration of Mars and Venus, and it's everywhere.

Just under half of women who answered the internet poll, published in the journal "Human Nature", said they felt it had been a bad idea. Four out of five men, in contrast, said they were happy with a brief fling.

Researchers from Uppsala University, Karolinska Institute, and the University of Chicago, have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings, published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been preserved through the evolution of primates. These conserved differences constitute a signature of sex differences in the brain.

People's attitudes to relationships could be given away by just the look of their face, it has been claimed - with men and women often after the opposite. Researchers said men generally preferred women they perceive are open to short-term sexual relationships, with women after longer-term matches.

Men are naturally more comedic than women because of the male hormone testosterone, an expert claims.

University of Toronto researchers have discovered that differences between men and women on some tasks that require spatial skills are largely eliminated after both groups play a video game for only a few hours.

Differences between males and females in behaviour are usually chalked up to sex-specific hormones, but a study released Sunday shows that genes play a critical role too.

Psychologists have found a justification for the male strangehold on Nobel prizes – there are twice as many men as women in the brightest 2% of the population.

My purpose in this talk is not to try to balance this out by praising men, though along the way I will have various positive things to say about both genders. The question of whether there’s anything good about men is only my point of departure. The tentative title of the book I’m writing is “How culture exploits men,” but even that for me is the lead-in to grand questions about how culture shapes action. In that context, what’s good about men means what men are good for, from the perspective of the system