Why hunter-gathering made men so bad at multi-tasking

It is the classic defence for many men being asked to do two things at once – they can't multi-task. But the excuse that it would be easier for a woman to do it is probably right, as it has emerged men's brains work far harder to juggle tasks. Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow believe this is because hunter-gatherer men evolved to better judge spatial awareness. Women's brains, on the other hand, had to evolve to cope with managing the family at home, making it less hard work to use the same skills now. Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow believe men can't multi-task because as hunter-gatherers they evolved to better judge spatial awareness Brain scans of 140 people aged 20 to 65 given the same task-switching challenge found the front of the brain lit up far more in men than women, while parts of the male brain not even needed by women got involved.