The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    12 months ago

    I would argue there that there’s a limit to how much better eyesight would affect things like that though, falling over and dying

    that specific example was a little bit hyperbolic, but i think there is likely a general improvement with the ability to sight vision and small discrepancies in things.

    Also you’re talking about visual clarity, this is specifically about being able to detect motion better.

    as for why this matters for shit like not falling over and dying? Well cool little story, sometimes humans like to move around. Things around us move in relation to ourselves, so it could be expected to see some benefit in that regard as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I’m not arguing good vision is not important for general survival, but I think hunting has a higher ceiling of usefulness for good vision than anything else humans did in that period

      • KillingTimeItself
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        12 months ago

        that’s certainly a possibility. It’s likely to be a significant part of it, that’s for sure.