it definitely is yea
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Replying to @stud_______ @CityBureaucrat
I dunno man, I just stumbled across it in one study a couple days ago and was surprised to see it replicated over and over again
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Replying to @rhyncophorous @stud_______
Also compare w/hakan studies on domesticated vs wild animals.
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Replying to @CityBureaucrat @stud_______
right from the few studies we have on hadza and ache t levels they appear to be lower than in sedentary western populations
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Would be wonderful if it was possible to test pre-agricultural populations instead of gatherers forced to marginal lands.
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Replying to @NotYetMyTime @rhyncophorous and
maybe for any multigenerational ecological state favoring higher masculinity, more efficient to evolve more androgen sensitivity than higher free-floating androgens
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Replying to @toad_spotted @rhyncophorous and
I mean whatever the merits of the study modern hunter-gatherers are hardly representative of Paleo- and Mesolithic life.
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Replying to @NotYetMyTime @rhyncophorous and
Also if testosterone favors muscle growth rather than energy storage I could see why h/g lifestyle would disfavor it I guess
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Replying to @toad_spotted @NotYetMyTime and
you can modulate behavioral vs anabolic effects of testosterone through differential tissue-specific expression of 5AR
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this would have to be an evolved difference
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Replying to @rhyncophorous @NotYetMyTime and
Do you mean that 5AR isn’t expressed differently in H-Gs, implying both behavioral as well as anabolic diffs are being selected for?
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