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Testosterone : sex, power, and the will to win
- Title
- Testosterone : sex, power, and the will to win / Joe Herbert.
- Author
- Herbert, Joe
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
- Summary
- ANTHROPOLOGY. We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved not only in sexuality but in driving aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking - all elements that were needed for successful survival and reproduction in the past. But these ancient systems are carried forward into a modern world. The ancient world shaped the human brain, but the modern world is shaped by that brain. How does this world, with all its cultural, political, and social variations, deal with and control the primeval role of testosterone, which continues to be essential for the survival of the species? Sex, aggression, winning, losing, gangs, war: the powerful effects of testosterone are entwined with them all.
- Alternative Title
- Sex, power, and the will to win
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Testosterone and Human Evolution -- 2.What is Testosterone? -- 3.Testosterone Makyth Man -- 4.Testosterone and Sex -- 5.Testosterone and Aggression -- 6.Controlling Testosterone -- 7.Winning, Losing, and Making Money -- 8.Testosterone and War -- 9.Testosterone in Women -- 10.Testosterone and the Brain.
- Call Number
- JBD 16-31
- ISBN
- 9780198724971
- 0198724977
- LCCN
- 2014956600
- OCLC
- 893455454
- Author
- Herbert, Joe, author.
- Title
- Testosterone : sex, power, and the will to win / Joe Herbert.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBD 16-31JFD 16-2704