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ISBN: 9780198724971 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,
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Testosterone --- Masculinity --- Masculinité --- Testostérone. --- Masculinité.
ISBN: 1281121282 9786611121280 9812771492 9789812771490 9789812703941 9812703942 9812703950 9789812703958 Year: 2007 Publisher: Singapore Hackensack, NJ World Scientific
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Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world - all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does - a role of which many of us are hardly aware, but one that has ensured, the survival of mankind. Despite famine, drought, wars, cold, infections and hostile environments, we survive as a species - though not always as individuals. All this time, our brains have been coping with what fate throws at us - a pro
Brain. --- Brain --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Evolution. --- Adaptation, Physiological. --- Adaptation, Psychological.
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ISBN: 0191038059 0198724985 0191038040 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,
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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 amodern world. The ancient world shaped the human brain, but the modern world is shaped by that brain. How does this world, with a
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