The challenge hypothesis: Where it began and relevance to humans

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 92, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-12

  Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; MALE; METABOLISM; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 85007490435     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.11.008     Document Type: Review

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