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Many people believe that, at its core, biological love-making is a fundamental, diverging force in our development. According to the familiar story, dissimilarities between the sexes are shaped by earlier evolutionary stresses - women will be more mindful and parenting-focused, men seek status to appeal to more mates - re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. This, subsequently, is the basis of supposedly entrenched inequalities in our modern societies. However in this entertaining and rigorous exploration of the latest research, Cordelia Fine attracts on evolutionary research, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy to reveal a more vibrant situation. Testosterone, for occasion, is not the effective hormonal substance of masculinity, and received wisdoms about dissimilarities between the sexes, from toy personal preferences to financial risk taking, are turned on their minds. Moving beyond the old "nature" versus "nurture" debates, Testosterone Rex reinvigorates wish and determination for a far more equal future.
