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Our results indicate that there are already sex differences in these allometric relationships in neonates: male neonates show the adult‐like allometric relationship between CC size and brain size; however female neonates show a significantly more positive allometry between CC size and brain size than either male neonates or female adults. The underlying cause of this sexual dimorphism is unclear; but the existence of this sexual dimorphism in neonates suggests that sex‐differences in lateralization have prenatal origins.</jats:p>","journal":"Human Brain Mapping","year":2022,"id":39884,"datarank":0.5068027183573982,"base_score":2.4849066497880004,"endowment":2.4849066497880004,"self_citation_contribution":0.37273599746820013,"citation_network_contribution":0.13406672088919802,"self_endowment_contribution":0.37273599746820013,"citer_contribution":0.13406672088919802,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":11,"citer_count":8,"citers_with_citation_signal":6,"citers_with_endowment":6,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":194849,"name":"Henriette Acosta","orcid":"0000-0001-8580-1402","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":194850,"name":"Jetro J. 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