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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