Posible fundamentación biológica de las principales diferencias según el sexo

Abstract

The author starts by describing the historical evolution of the study of differences related to sex and its most interesting points from 1959, pointing out that, from a biosocial perspective, the problem focuses nowadays on the intents to define operatively the parcial aspects of the problem and its possible interactions. After offering a balance of present findings, obtained by the application of the descriptive method and analizing some of its methodological aspects, the author focuses on biological explanations from three perspectives: genetic, biochemical and neurological. The article finishes with future perspectives in the study of this subject, highlighting that present data do not offer any scientific law, but simply a few generalizations which, as well, have meaningful exceptions. The author suggests that the main problem is the operative definition of the variable �sex� and points out the usefulness of mathematical language in the construction of a more complex and structured model of differences/similarities depending on sex.