Applying socioendocrinology to evolutionary models: Fatherhood and physiology

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 146-160

  Gettler, Lee T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Oxytocin vasopressin; Prolactin; Psychobiology; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FATHER; HOMINID; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FATHERS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITUITARY HORMONES; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84905827955     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21412     Document Type: Article

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