Word: apicella
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...lost his money. The team hoped to further analyze the cross-cultural finding that women are less prone to risky behavior than men. “Because you see these sex differences in risk-taking, we hypothesized that testosterone may play a role,” said Coren L. Apicella, a graduate student in anthropology who co-authored the study. They measured participants’ testosterone levels by taking samples of their saliva and by evaluating the “maleness” of their faces—a larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone...
...recording the voices of 49 men in the Tanzanian Hadza community and comparing their reproductive histories, anthropology graduate student Coren L. Apicella discovered that men with deeper voices fathered two more children on average than men with higher voices. The reason for this, however, is still unknown...
...study, Apicella and her co-authors speculate that men with deeper voices may begin procreating earlier—or perhaps, women prefer men with deeper voices...
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