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?
More about Carole's work: http://www.carolehooven.com/
Follow Carole on twitter: https://twitter.com/hoovlet
Episode links:
1) Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/home/science-of-testosterone-with-carole-hooven
2) Youtube: https://youtu.be/mYqz5OYMvRI
Timeline of the session:
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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