Physical competition increases testosterone among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists: A test of the 'challenge hypothesis'

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1739, 2012, Pages 2907-2912

  Trumble, Benjamin C ^a   Cummings, Daniel ^b   von Rueden, Christopher ^c   O'Connor, Kathleen A ^a   Smith, Eric A ^a   Gurven, Michael ^c   Kaplan, Hillard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge hypothesis; Competition; Testosterone; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

FORAGE; HORTICULTURE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TESTOSTERONE;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84862141662     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0455     Document Type: Article

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