Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps

You can increase your peripheral vision range with practice, just as fighter pilots do. The arc of a person’s peripheral vision can also increase under life-threatening circumstances

As a hunter, a man needed vision that would allow him to zero in on, and pursue, targets in the distance. He evolved with vision almost like a racehorse with blinders so that he would not be distracted from targets

Science is a slow, lumbering discipline and takes years to feed its results into the education system.

In the same way, anticipating the difficulties or conflicts that might arise in relationships as a result of our differences enables you to anticipate and defuse them as they occur.

Men want power, achievement, and sex. Women want relationships, stability, and love.

Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge that they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to his or her expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives, and desires.

Studies of neutrally reared children in these societies show that the removal of the mother/child bond does not reduce the sex differences or preferences in children. Rather, it creates a generation of children who feel neglected and confused and are likely to grow into screwed-up adults.

motherhood still is at the top of most women’s list of things that give the greatest satisfaction.

Sixty percent of women 31 to 39 said that motherhood was their first choice, compared to 2 percent for careers. For 31 percent of women age 18 to 30 motherhood was also number one, and careers accounted for only 18 percent.

A survey of 5,000 women conducted by the British private health insurance company BUPA and health magazine Top Sante showed that 66 percent felt overwork was damaging their health.