Testosterone and paternal care in East African foragers and pastoralists
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Testosterone and paternal care in East African foragers and pastoralists.
The 'challenge hypothesis' posits that testosterone facilitates reproductive effort (investment in male-male competition and mate-seeking) at the expense of parenting effort (investment in offspring and mates). Multiple studies, primarily in North America, have shown that men in committed relationships, fathers, or both maintain lower levels of testosterone than unpaired men. Data from non-west...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1028