Sex differences in human physiology explained

Sex differences in human physiology are distinctions of physiological characteristics associated with either male or female humans. These differences are caused by the effects of the different sex chromosome complement in males and females, and differential exposure to gonadal sex hormones during development. Sexual dimorphism is a term for the phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species.

The process of meiosis and fertilization (with rare exceptions) results in a zygote with either two X chromosomes (an XX female) or one X and one Y chromosome (an XY male) which then develops the typical female or male phenotype. Physiological sex differences include discrete features such as the respective male and female reproductive systems, as well as average differences between males and females including size and strength, bodily proportions, hair distribution, breast differentiation, voice pitch, and brain size and structure.

Sex determination and differentiation

See also: Sexual differentiation in humans. The human genome consists of two copies of each of 23 chromosomes (a total of 46).[1] One set of 23 comes from the mother and one set comes from the father.[1] Of these 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 are autosomes, and one is a sex chromosome.[1] There are two kinds of sex chromosomes–X and Y. In humans and in almost all other mammals, females carry two X chromosomes, designated XX, and males carry one X and one Y, designated XY.[1]

A human egg contains only one set of chromosomes (23) and is a haploid. Sperm also have only one set of 23 chromosomes and are therefore haploid. When an egg and sperm fuse at fertilization, the two sets of chromosomes come together to form a unique diploid individual with 46 chromosomes.[2]

The sex chromosome in a human egg is always an X chromosome since a female only has X sex chromosomes. In sperm, about half the sperm have an X chromosome and half have a Y chromosome.[2] If an egg fuses with sperm with a Y chromosome, the resulting individual is male. If an egg fuses with sperm with an X chromosome, the resulting individual is female.[2] There are rare exceptions to this rule in which, for example, XX individuals develop as males or XY individuals develop as females.[3] Chromosomes are not the final determinant of sex. In some cases, for example, chromosomally female babies that have been exposed to high levels of androgens before birth can develop masculinized genitals by the time they are born. There are other variations of sex chromosomes that lead to a variety of different physical expressions.[4]

The X-chromosome carries a larger number of genes in comparison to the Y-chromosome. In humans, X-chromosome inactivation enables males and females to have an equal expression of the genes on the X-chromosome since females have two X-chromosomes while males have a single X and a Y chromosome. X-chromosome inactivation is random in the somatic cells of the body as either the maternal or paternal X-chromosome can become inactivated in each cell. Thus, females are genetic mosaics.[5]

Size and body shape

See also: Human body shape and Female body shape.

Skeleton and muscular system

Skeleton

The female skeleton is generally less massive, smoother, and thinner than the male;[11] its rib cage is more rounded and smaller, its lumbar curve greater, and a generally longer and smaller female waist results from the chest being more narrow at the base, and the pelvis generally not as high.[11]

The pelvis is, in general, different between the human female and male skeleton.[11] [12] Although variations exist and there may be a degree of overlap between typically male or female traits,[11] [12] the pelvis is the most dimorphic bone of the human skeleton and is therefore likely to be accurate when using it to ascertain a person's sex.[12] It differs both in overall shape and structure. The female pelvis, which is adapted for gestation and childbirth, is less high, but proportionately wider and more circular than in the male; its sacrum—the triangular bone at the upper posterior of the pelvic cavity, serving as the base of the spine—is also wider.[11] The female pelvis is tilted anteriorly, often resulting in the more sway-backed appearance.

In females, the acetabula, the concave surfaces to which the balls of the femurs attach via ligaments, are located farther apart,[13] [14] which increases the distance between the most outer points of the femurs (their greater trochanters) and thus the width of the hips.[14] Female femurs are therefore more generally angled (laterally, further away from vertical).[14] This greater angle applies a larger portion of the gravitational or vertical load as valgus torque (rotational force against the knee).[14] This, combined with the female's weaker tendons and ligaments and a narrower intercondylar notch, causes increased susceptibility to injury of the ACL in female athletes.[15] [16]

The pelvis of the human male is slightly narrower.[11] One hypothesis is that this makes it more optimized for walking and that the wider female pelvis is an evolutionary compromise between efficient walking and the need for successful childbirth.[17] This is termed the obstetrical dilemma.[18] [19] Disagreement exists as to the strength of the hypothesis.[18] [19]

Males and females do not differ in their number of ribs; both normally have twelve pairs.[20]

The following further generalizations have been made regarding male-female skeletal differences:

Muscle mass and strength

Pubertal changes in males lead to a ten times increase in testosterone. Because of this and because males go through puberty for longer, females typically have lower total muscle mass than males, and also have lower muscle mass in comparison to total body mass.[7] Males convert more of their caloric intake into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves, while females tend to convert more into fat deposits.[24] As a consequence, males are generally physically stronger than females.[7] Research suggests that, while males have greater total muscle areas than females, the number of muscle fibers in males and females are alike. Instead of muscle fiber composition as the main reason for male's greater absolute strength, the data indicates that it is total muscle area that is responsible for this difference.[25] Males' individual muscle fibers are larger than women's, which results in their more muscular appearance. Their larger muscle fibers appear responsible for their more considerable absolute force production.[25]

The sex difference in muscle mass remains after adjusting for body weight and height.[25] Males are usually stronger than females when adjusting for differences in total body mass, due to the higher male muscle-mass to body-mass ratio.[7] [26] The greater muscle mass is reported to be due to a greater capacity for muscular hypertrophy as a result of higher levels of circulating testosterone in males.[27]

The studies often show different results about the body strength difference between the both sexes. Two studies, conducted in the four European Union countries, involving 2,000 participants (1,000 men and 1 000 women) concluded that females are 74 - 92% as strong as males, as many women (211 of 1,000) are still physically stronger than average men.[28] [29] The differences is smaller in lower body strength and higher in upper body strength.Some researches shows gross measures of body strength suggest that females are approximately 50-60% as strong as males in the upper body, and 60-70% as strong in the lower body.[30] One study of muscle strength in the elbows and knees—in 45 and older males and females—found the strength of females to range from 42 to 63% of male strength.[31] Males have greater hand grip strength than females.[32] [33] Differences in width of arm, thighs and calves appear during puberty.

Respiratory system

Males typically have larger tracheae and main bronchi and greater lung volume per body mass.[34] They also have larger hearts,[35] 10% higher red blood cell count, and higher haemoglobin hence greater oxygen-carrying capacity.[36] [37] They have higher circulating clotting factors (vitamin K, prothrombin and platelets). These differences lead to faster clotting of blood and higher peripheral pain tolerance.[38]

Sex differences in the trachea and main bronchi are not apparent until at least age 14.[34] On average, females have smaller lungs than males at birth.[34]

Skin and hair

See also: Androgenic hair and Human skin.

Skin

Males' skin is thicker and oilier than females' skin.[39] Females have more subcutaneous fat than males. This helps keep them warmer and enables them to survive lower temperatures than males during the cold.[40] As a result of greater vasoconstriction, while the surface of female skin is colder than male skin, the deep-skin temperature in females is higher than in males.[41]

Males generally have darker skin than females.[42] The lighter skin in females helps their bodies synthesize more Vitamin D from sunlight and absorb more calcium, which is needed during pregnancy and lactation.[43]

Hair

On average, males have more body hair than females. Males have relatively more of a type of hair called terminal hair, especially on the face, chest, abdomen and back. Females have more vellus hair, which is thinner, shorter, and lighter, and therefore less visible.[44]

Although males grow hair faster than females, baldness is more prevalent in males than in females. The main cause for this is male pattern baldness. Male pattern baldness is a condition where hair loss occurs in a typical pattern of a receding hairline and hair thinning on the crown. It is caused by hormones and genetic predisposition.[45]

Color

In lighter-complected humans, male skin is visibly redder; this is due to greater blood volume rather than melanin.[46] [47] Conversely, females are lighter-skinned than males in some studied human populations.[48] [49] The differences in color are mainly caused by higher levels of melanin in the skin, hair and eyes in males.[50] [51]

In one study, almost twice as many females as males had red or auburn hair. A higher proportion of females were also found to have blond hair, whereas males were more likely to have black or dark brown hair.[52] Another study found green eyes, which are a result of lower melanin levels, to be much more common in females than in males, at least by a factor of two.[53] [54]

A different study found that while females tend to have a lower frequency of black hair, males have a higher frequency of platinum blond hair, blue eyes and lighter skin. According to this one theory the cause for this is a higher frequency of genetic recombination in females than in males, possibly due to sex-linked genes, and as a result females tend to show less phenotypical variation in any given population.[55] [56] [57]

The human sexual dimorphism in color seems to be greater in populations that are medium in skin color than in very light or very dark-colored populations.

Sexual organs and reproductive systems

See also: Human male reproductive system. Males and females have different sex organs. Females have two ovaries that store the eggs, and a uterus which is connected to a vagina. The external genitals are called the vulva. Males have testicles that produce sperm. The testicles are placed in the scrotum behind the penis, which are external extremities.[58] It is worth noting that between 1.7% and 4% of humans may be classified as intersex, which can mean (among other forms of variation) that one or more of the internal or external genitalia associated with their sex assignment is absent, different from the typical presentation, etc.[59]

Male orgasm (and the corresponding release of ejaculate containing sperm from the testes) is essential for reproduction, whereas female orgasm is not. The female orgasm was originally believed to have no function other than pleasure. Later evidence suggests that it evolved as a discriminatory advantage in regards to mate selection.[60]

Female ejaculation has been observed for 2,000 years. It refers to the release of fluid experienced by some females during orgasm. The components of the ejaculate are comparable to that of the male ejaculate. The release of this fluid is a product of the Skene's gland (female prostate), located within the walls of the urethra. The female prostate is much smaller than the male prostate but seems to behave in a similar fashion. Female ejaculate, though, does not contain sperm.[61] The female prostate is visible through MRI and ultrasound.[61]

Reproductive capacity and cost

Males typically produce billions of sperm each month, many of which are capable of fertilization. Females typically produce one ovum a month that can be fertilized into an embryo. Thus during a lifetime males are able to father a significantly greater number of children than females can give birth to. The most fertile female, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was the wife of Feodor Vassilyev of Russia (1707–1782) who had 69 surviving children. The most prolific father of all time is believed to be the last Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, Mulai Ismail (1646–1727) who reportedly fathered more than 800 children from a harem of 500 women.

Mutation rate

Males undergo a greater number of germline cell divisions than females, and as a consequence the male germline accumulates more DNA replication errors that result in a higher mutation rate in males than in females.[62]

Fertility

Female fertility declines after age 30 and ends with the menopause.[63] [64] Female physical experiences vary depending on external forces such as diet, marriage patterns, culture, and other aspects. In Western nations menstruation begins to affect females at 13 and menopause starts around 51. In non-industrialized countries, on the other hand, most females begin menstruation at a later age.[65] More lactation in the lifetime of non-western females inhibits ovulation and extends the number of fertile years.[66] Pregnancy in the 40s or later has been correlated with increased risk of Down syndrome in children.[67] Males are capable of fathering children into old age. Paternal age effects in children include multiple sclerosis,[68] autism,[69] breast cancer[70] and schizophrenia,[71] as well as reduced intelligence.[72]

Adriana Iliescu was reported as the world's oldest woman to give birth, at age 66. Her record stood until Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara gave birth to twin sons at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on December 29, 2006, at the age of 67. In both cases IVF was used. The oldest known father was former Australian miner Les Colley, who fathered a child at age 93.[73]

Brain and nervous system

See main article: Neuroscience of sex differences.

Brain

The brains of humans were long believed to be different for males and females.[74] However, this has been called into question by recent developments in neuroscience. For example, studies published in 2018,[75] 2019,[76] and 2021,[77] among others, have challenged the idea of sexual dimorphism regarding the brain, with one study concluding firmly that "brains are not meaningfully aligned along a male-female continuum."[78] When the size of one's head is accounted for, brain differences between sexes are no longer clear, and they are not generalizable across geographic regions (i.e., what is considered a brain sex distinction in Europeans may not correlate to sex distinctions between Asian populations).[79]

Brain size

Early research into the differences between male and female brains showed that male brains are, on average, larger than female brains. This research was frequently cited to support the assertion that women are less intelligent than men.[80] One of the most influential early researchers on this topic was Paul Broca. In 1861, he examined 432 human brains from cadavers and found that the brains of males had an average weight of 1325 grams, while the brains of females had an average weight of 1144 grams. This study, however, did not control for differences in body size or age.[80] [81] Later studies have shown that while male's brains are an average of 10-15% larger and heavier than female's brains, there is relatively no difference when controlling for body weight. This means the brain-to-body mass ratio is, on average, approximately the same for both sexes. Comparing a male and a female of the same body size, an average difference of 100 grams in brain-mass is present, the male having the bigger and heavier brain. This difference of 100 grams applies over the whole range of human sizes.[82] [83]

Brain structure

Structural brain differences usually correspond to sexually dimorphic attributes that bring about functional brain differences.

On average, female brains have a larger ratio of grey matter to the white matter than males (particularly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior temporal gyrus), even when sex-differences in the total intracranial volume are taken into consideration. Most notably, males have a larger amount of white matter in the frontal and temporal perisylvian region, and in the temporal stem and optic radiation, of the left hemisphere, whereas females have a larger amount of gray matter in the superior temporal gyrus, planum temporale, Heschl gyrus, cingulate gyrus, inferior frontal, and central sulci margins, of the left hemisphere.

The degree of hemispheric asymmetry in males corresponds to the relative size of corpus callosum; however, this is not true in females. An increase in hemispheric asymmetry in male brains causes a male sex-dependent decrease in inter-hemispheric connectivity. Many studies suggest that, on average, female brains have more commissural tracts involved in inter-hemispheric connectivity than males. Specifically, studies suggests that:

Several studies have reached contrary conclusions.

There are also differences in the structure of specific areas of the brain. On average, the SDN has been repeatedly found to be considerably larger in males than in females. The volume of the SDN was 2.2 times as large in males as in females. On average, the BSTc is twice as large in males as in females. On average, the INAH-3 is significantly larger in males than in females regardless of age. Two studies found that men have larger parietal lobes, an area responsible for sensory input including spatial sense and navigation; though, another study failed to find any statistically significant difference.[84] [85] At the same time, females have larger Wernicke's and Broca's areas, areas responsible for language processing.[86] Studies using MRI scanning have shown that the auditory and language-related regions in the left hemisphere are proportionally expanded in females versus in males. Conversely, the primary visual, and visuo-spatial association areas of the parietal lobes are proportionally larger in males.[87] The corpus callous is located at the sagittal divide and is the primary commissure in the human brain. It connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebral cortex, which allows them to communicate with each other. With respect to language, males predominantly use their left hemisphere but females use both their right and left hemispheres. The right hemisphere controls emotion, so using the right hemisphere adds more prosody to speech.[88] In males, the corpus callosum is larger than females.[89] However, the splenium and the isthmus subregions of the corpus callosum are larger in females. The genu subregion is larger in males. These subregions may serve as the basis for sex differences in language.[90] However, a 1997 meta-study concluded that there is no relative size difference, and that the larger corpus callosum in males is due to generally larger brains in males on average; a small man and a large man would therefore have the same distinctions as the average man and the average woman.[91] [92]

In total and on average, females have a higher percentage of grey matter in comparison to males, and males a higher percentage of white matter.[93] [94] However, some researchers maintain that as males have larger brains on average than females, when adjusted for total brain volume, the grey matter differences between sexes is small or nonexistent. Thus, the percentage of grey matter appears to be more related to brain size than it is to sex.[95] [96]

In 2005, Haier et al. reported that, compared with males, females show fewer grey matter areas associated with intelligence, but more white matter areas associated with intelligence. He concluded that "men and women apparently achieve similar IQ results with different brain regions, suggesting that there is no singular underlying neuroanatomical structure to general intelligence and that different types of brain designs may manifest equivalent intellectual performance."[97] Using brain mapping, it was shown that males have more than six times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than females, and females have nearly ten times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than males.[98] They also report that the brain areas correlated with IQ differ between the sexes. In short, males and females apparently achieve similar IQ results with different brain regions.[97] However, a 2019 article called the base assertions of articles such as Haier, et al., finding there is no significant, consistent difference in grey and white matter between males and females.[99]

The amygdala is the structure that responds to emotionally arousing information, respond to the environment, and reacts with stress. The male amygdala was believed to be proportionally larger than that in females, causing sex to be a determining factor in reactions to stress. However, this is not the case.[100] The hippocampus, crucial for memory storage and spatial mapping of the physical environment, was likewise thought to be larger in females than in males.[101]

A brain study done by the NIH showed that the females had greater volume in the prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, superior temporal cortex, lateral parietal cortex, and insula, whereas males had greater volume in the ventral temporal and occipital regions.[102]

Other than external genitals, there are few physical differences before puberty. Small differences in height and start of physical maturity are seen. In the first decade of human life, there is a significant amount of overlap between children of both sexes. The gradual growth in sex difference throughout a person's life is a product of various hormones. Testosterone is the major active hormone in male development while estrogen is the dominant female hormone. These hormones are not, however, limited to each sex. Both males and females have both testosterone and estrogen.

Sensory systems

See also: Sex differences in sensory systems.

Immune system

Strength and type of immune response differ in males and females. Generally speaking, females have a stronger immune response than males.[108] [109] This results in males having a higher morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases than females do, and lower rates of auto-immune diseases.[110]

Tissues and hormones

Health

Life span

Females live longer than males in most countries around the world. In Russia, however, the sex-associated gap has been increasing as male life expectancy declines.[121]

The longer average life span of females can lead to skewed statistical results in regard to sex differences. For example, females are often seen to be at a higher risk of bone fracture due to osteoporosis. Although females do lose bone density faster than males after menopause, the data shows a larger disparity because there are more older females in the population.

DNA damage during aging

The gender gap in life expectancy suggests differences in the aging process between males and females. A key factor underlying aging is considered to be DNA damage, particularly DNA double-strand breaks, and the capability to repair these damages declines with age.[122] Repair of DNA double-strand breaks is catalyzed by multiple pathways and expression of these repair pathways was found to be subject to changes upon aging.[122] These age-related changes in the expression of double-strand break repair pathways were observed to be distinctly different in men and women.[122]

Illness and injury

Sex chromosome disorders

Certain diseases and conditions are clearly sex-related in that they are caused by the same chromosomes that regulate sex differentiation. Some conditions are X-linked recessive, in that the gene is carried on the X chromosome. Genetic females (XX) will show symptoms of the disease only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas genetic males (XY) will show symptoms of the disease if their only X chromosome is defective. (A female may carry such a disease on one X chromosome but not show symptoms if the other X chromosome works sufficiently.) For this reason, such conditions are far more common in males than in females.

X-linked recessive disorders include:[123]

X-linked dominant disorders include:[124]

There are diseases that are caused by a defective Y chromosome or a defective number of them.

Differences not linked to sex chromosomes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a number of reports on gender and health.[125] The following trends are shown:

Infectious disease prevalence varies - this is largely due to cultural and exposure factors. In particular the WHO notes that:

Some other sex-related health differences include:

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