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if “ equals testosterone.”1 He says that numerous studies have been done to figure it out; but have never been able to come to a scientific conclusion. In his essay he goes on to state his view that “Hormones seem to many to be more real, more substantive, than the ephemera of behavior, so when a correlation occurs, it must be because hormones regulate behavior, not the other way around.”2
The most reliably information has been found in numerous tests that there is no scientific evidence that links testosterone and . “Evidence documenting a relationship between t testosterone and in criminal and non criminal populations is inconclusive, with studies reporting both positive and negative findings.”3
Even though we don’t have any conclusive evidence that directly links testosterone to , that doesn’t mean they don’t affect each other. It is quite the opposite, “testosterone isn’t causing , it’s exaggerating the that is already there.”4
Notes
1Robert Sapolsky, “The Trouble ...

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