Adaptive attunement to the sex of individuals at a competition: the ratio of opposite- to same-sex individuals correlates with changes in competitors' testosterone levels

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-63

  Miller, Saul L ^a   Maner, Jon K ^a   McNulty, James K ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge hypothesis; Hormones; Intrasexual competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355173972     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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