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Hormones, sex, and society : the science of physicology

Title
Hormones, sex, and society : the science of physicology / Helmuth Nyborg ; foreword by Bruce S. McEwen.
Author
Nyborg, Helmuth.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994.

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Description
xvii, 229 pages.
Series Statement
Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence, 1063-2158
Uniform Title
Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence.
Subject
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Hormones, Sex
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Bruce S. McEwen -- 1. Mentalistic Approaches to Human Nature and Society -- 2. The Physicological Research Program -- 3. Intrasystemic Hormone Effects -- 4. Physicological Analysis of Sexual Differentiation (SD) -- 5. The Proximate Cause of Sexual Differentiation -- 6. Permanent Organizational Effects of Sex Hormones -- 7. Transient Effects of Sex Hormones -- 8. Conversion of One Sex Hormone into Another -- 9. Intermediate Brain Estradiol Concentrations -- 10. Sex Hormones as Harmonizers of Body, Brain, and Behavioral Development -- 11. Origin of Sexual Differentiation of the Fetus -- 12. Cerebral E[subscript 2] and SD of the Brain -- 13. Universal Economy and Fixed Budgets -- 14. Sex Hormones and Individual Variability -- 15. Epilogue.
ISBN
0275946088 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
94008640
OCLC
  • 29911719
  • ocm29911719
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries