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Nature 443, 634 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443634a; Published online 11 October 2006

Open Innovation Challenges

Psychoneuroindoctrinology

Rebecca M. Young1 & Evan Balaban2

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Female Brain

by Louann Brizendine

Morgan Road: 2006. 279 pp. $24.95

In an age when one in three American adults firmly rejects evolution as false, it is a daunting challenge to write a popular and accessible account of the endocrinology, pharmacology, neurobiology, development and evolution of human sex differences. As a result, we are inclined to give authors who take up the challenge a certain amount of freedom to spruce up the facts in order to attract lay readers, who may not have the patience for the usual cautious, scientific approach.