Word: androgeneity
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Frisch’s finding has a biological basis. Body fat in women converts the male hormone androgen into the female hormone oestrogen...
...Professor Richard W. Wrangham contributed the adaptationist’s point of view. Citing his own research on genital masculinization in spotted hyenas, Wrangham explained that the hypothesis long trumpeted by Gould, which claims that the hyena’s genitals are a non-adaptive by-product of high androgen levels, is wrong. “It’s an unusual case, but it seems to me an important symbol—first of the supposed correctness of the anti-adaptationist perspective, and now of the fact that simplistic thinking can be found on both sides of the debate...
What we do know is that testosterone is an androgen, as the family of male sex hormones are called, and these hormones, in turn, are made up of the fat known as steroids. Both men and women produce testosterone in their bodies, men in the testes and adrenal glands, women in the adrenal glands and ovaries. But men produce much more--the average healthy male has 260 to 1,000 nanograms of testosterone per deciliter of blood plasma. For women the range is 15 to 70. But because men differ on how effectively their bodies process the substance--for instance...
...thing we have to recognize is that the decline in testosterone is also intertwined with changes, such as decrease in blood flow, and psychological and social changes too," says Dr. Kenneth Goldberg, medical director of the Men's Health Center in Dallas. "Simply expecting to take men who are androgen deficient and expecting testosterone to fix it all--it just...
...William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...