Science of testosterone

Biology, Physics, Chemistry. 23/09/10

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This is a conversation with Carole Hooven. She teaches in and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She is also an author of a great book "T: The story of testosterone". Here we talk about what is testosterone?, Evolution of testosterone, how it affects the behavior and shapes the society?

About the guest

  • 00:00:00 Introduction

  • 00:01:18 Carole's work area

  • 00:03:36 Motivation to write a book on Testosterone

  • 00:07:46 What is testosterone?

  • 00:19:08 Testosterone levels

  • 00:20:30 How do we define a male or a female?

  • 00:27:56 Effects of Testosterone

  • 00:36:04 Red deer and Testosterone levels

  • 00:42:21 Effects of testosterone in other apes

  • 00:47:15 Correlation between hierarchies and T-levels

  • 00:48:29 Testosterone levels during lifetime

  • 00:49:39 CAH (Congenital Androgen Hyperplasia) and CAIS (Congenital Androgen Insensitive Syndrome)

  • 00:58:56 T-levels during the process of sex-change

  • 01:03:29 Testosterone and homosexuality

  • 01:07:08 Deterministic view of Testosterone

  • 01:09:49 Meditation and testosterone

  • 01:14:21 Testosterone and the society

  • 01:21:06 Thank you!

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