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It seems to be a fairly trivial observation that all adult men and all women do not share the same underlying psychological machinery - because machinery malfunctions - during development, because of bad genes, and as a result of trama and other pathology - so there are quite a few people who are broken and have missing pieces.
There are, of course, also sex and age differences - if you consider all humans.
I argued against the premise of the "The Psychological Unity of Humankind" essay long ago here: http://alife.co.uk/essays/species_unity/
Indeed. The "psychic unity of mankind" is probably true to some degree on the level of different cultures, but far less so on the level of individuals. (I mean, we even have people who've had half their brain removed and are seemingly of normal intelligence, and that's not even going to the weird neuroscience cases.)