article_snippet.sent: Everything that’s unpleasant about male behaviour has been ascribed to the effects of this much maligned hormone.
article_snippet.sent: Yet, as Joe Herbert makes clear in Joe Herbert engaging whistlestop tour of the science surrounding it, testosterone is at the heart of human life.
article_snippet.sent: Without our father’s testosterone,’ as our father writes, ‘none of our would exist.
article_snippet.sent: Although this is the case and It’s impossible to think of ‘maleness’ without testosterone, It’s also important for sexual behaviour in women.
article_snippet.sent: The blood of an adult woman before menopause actually contains about five times more testosterone than oestrogen, the supposedly ‘female’ hormone.
article_snippet.sent: However, it’s as a metaphor for masculinity that testosterone is best known.
article_snippet.sent: All that’s unpleasant about male behaviour is ascribed to testosterone, yet as Joe Herbert explains, testosterone is at the heart of human life .
article_snippet.sent: testosterone begins testosterone influence in the womb as testosterone helps to shape the distinctive characteristics of the male body.
article_snippet.sent: That three-month-old baby boy, sweetly smiling at you from his pram, may well have testosterone levels that rival his father’s.
article_snippet.sent: Post-puberty, testosterone drives the competition for females.
article_snippet.sent: Adult human males have varying levels of the hormone in different circumstances.
article_snippet.sent: After all, testosterone is supposed to be the hormone behind violence and aggression.
article_snippet.sent: When levels are high, the effects of testosterone on male behaviour are so strong that the human brain has had to find a multitude of ways of regulating and channelling male behaviour.
article_snippet.sent: In that sense, as Joe Herbert writes, ‘testosterone lies at the heart of much of our history’.
highlights_snippet.sent: All that’s unpleasant about male behaviour is ascribed to the hormone .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Yet, as Joe Herbert explains, TESTOSTERONE is at the heart of human life .