ArticleEvolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society2013
Age-independent increases in male salivary testosterone during horticultural activity among Tsimane forager-farmers.
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- Energetic costs of testosterone in two subsistence populations.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Article
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- Parental hormones are associated with crop loss and family sickness following catastrophic flooding in lowland Bolivia.Physiology & behavior · 2018Observational
- The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine.Evolutionary anthropology · 2017Article
- Associations between male testosterone and immune function in a pathogenically stressed forager-horticultural population.American journal of physical anthropology · 2016Article
- Evolving the neuroendocrine physiology of human and primate cooperation and collective action.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- The Daily Profiles of Circulating AMH and INSL3 in Men are Distinct from the Other Testicular Hormones, Inhibin B and Testosterone.PloS one · 2015Article
- Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology CouncilArticle
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Abstract
Testosterone plays an important role in mediating male reproductive trade-offs in many vertebrate species, augmenting muscle and influencing behavior necessary for male-male competition and mating-effort. Among humans, testosterone may also play a key role in facilitating male provisioning of offspring as muscular and neuromuscular performance are deeply influenced by acute changes in testosterone. This study examines acute changes in salivary testosterone among 63 Tsimane men ranging in age from 16-80 (mean 38.2) years during one-hour bouts of tree-chopping while clearing horticultural plots. The Tsimane forager-horticulturalists living in the Bolivian Amazon experience high energy expenditure associated with food production, have high levels of parasites and pathogens, and display significantly lower baseline salivary testosterone than age-matched US males. Mixed-effects models controlling for BMI and time of specimen collection reveal increased salivary testosterone (
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