Not only could he take deeper breaths with his larger lungs, but he had more muscle mass surrounding those lungs, allowing him to better control the release of that pressure over time. Recent research supports this: when we speak, women’s brains send more frequent impulse signals to the diaphragm and “inspiratory” muscles than men’s do. To put it simply, women ask them to work harder and more often, which requires more involved neurological control. It’s possible this bias toward greater control makes us better at fine-grained differences in voice control (more on that in a moment), but in the
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