Prenatal Testosterone in Mind: Amniotic Fluid Studies (MIT Press)
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Sex differences are one thing, individual differences are another. The emerging success of using variations in the human genome to explain individuality can blind us to the contributions that later phenotypical events make. By relating individual differences in testosterone levels during fetal life with childhood behavior, Baron-Cohen and his colleagues provide a challenging and well-argued concept of the early power of this hormone to shape our future selves: helping to make us what we are, but sometimes — as in autism — with devastating consequences. Combine what this book tells you about testosterone at the dawn our lives with what we know of its later power, and you have a molecule which has truly shaped human history.
(Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
From the Inside Flap
“A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research.”
–Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of *The Blank Slate*, *How the Mind Works*, and *Words and Rules*
“Sex differences are one thing, individual differences are another. The emerging success of using variations in the human genome to explain individuality can blind us to the contributions that later phenotypical events make. By relating individual differences in testosterone levels during fetal life with childhood behavior, Baron-Cohen and his colleagues provide a challenging and well-argued concept of the early power of this hormone to shape our future selves: helping to make us what we are, but sometimes — as in autism — with devastating consequences. Combine what this book tells you about testosterone at the dawn our lives with what we know of its later power, and you have a molecule which has truly shaped human history.”
–Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.