Timeline for What mechanisms need to be in place for an advanced, peaceful society to retain high testosterone levels?
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| May 13, 2020 at 14:02 | comment | added | user75689 | You got the it all wrong.... It's not like testosterone inhibits socialization or the building of bonds and civility.. But the progress of civilization puts less pressure on having high testosterone. In the modern era being a testosterone monster is no more a vital requirement. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 17:27 | vote | accept | Arash Howaida | ||
| Jan 18, 2019 at 20:47 | answer | added | user53931 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | Arash Howaida | @RonMaupin Yea, Hare's work examined bonobos and chimps and despite bonobos promiscuous tendencies, they don't have as high levels of testosterone. They found that when met with a stressful situation bonobos produce cortisol whereas chimps produce testosterone. The testosterone discrepancy was also found in the bone structure; bonobos rarely have high brows. Very interesting stuff. I didn't include all the details in the post, for the sake of conciseness. | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 4:03 | comment | added | Ron Maupin | You mentioned chimpanzees, but have you also looked bonobo society? It seems disputes are settled by sexual intercourse. | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 2:44 | answer | added | Caleb Miller | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 21:09 | answer | added | rje | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 17:55 | comment | added | hszmv | Have you looked into Warrior Cultures both in real life and in fiction? You'll find from the Vikings to the Samurai to the U.S. Marines to the Klingons, that if you get a chance to get over the belligerent nature that most people will think of, they actually have a very strict society that favors some form of Honor and virtue... The brutal warrior is tolerated on the battlefield, specifically because they are not on the home front. Most follow some flavor of philosophy in line with Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policies. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 15:53 | comment | added | Arash Howaida | @Demigan Well that's a pleasant surprise, thanks for the info, looking into it now. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | Demigan | ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068300 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 15:05 | comment | added | Demigan | I'll look later for the research, but in rats testosterone fostered aggressiveness. In humans it made them more social, as testosterone encourages you to be higher in the hierarchy and by being more socially adept you can often achieve it more easily. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 14:36 | answer | added | workerjoe | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 13:53 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 13:47 | answer | added | makingthematrix | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 12:21 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 12:06 | answer | added | Spoki0 - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 11:53 | comment | added | Rekesoft | While testosterone is linked to aggressive behaviour, it's also more heavily linked to muscle growth, male sexual libido and baldness, to name a few. A society with low-testosterone may be violent - violence is less prevalent in women's prisons, but there is some violence too - and a high testosterone society may be peaciful - not many fist fights in monasteries. Specially, war is not fueled by testosterone but by greed. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 10:26 | answer | added | Ynneadwraith | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 10:22 | answer | added | Pfinnn | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jan 17, 2019 at 9:26 | history | asked | Arash Howaida | CC BY-SA 4.0 |