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Copyright © 1997 by Robert M. Sapolsky
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First Scribner Edition 1998
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Sapolsky, Robert M.
The trouble with testosterone : and other essays on the biology of the human predicament / Robert M. Sapolsky.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
(alk. paper)
1. Psychobiology. I. Title.
QP360.S268 1997
6l0’.1—dc21 96-52357
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ISBN 0-684-83409-X
ISBN 0-684-83891-5 (Pbk)
eISBN: 978-1-4391-2505-2
“How Big Is Yours?”; “The Young and the Reckless”; “Junk Food Monkeys”; “The Graying of the Troop”; and “The Dissolution of Ego Boundaries and the Fit of My Father’s Shirt” were previously published in Discover. “Primate Peekaboo”; “Measures of Life”; “The Solace of Patterns”; “Poverty’s Remains”; “The Burden of Being Burden-Free”; and “Curious George’s Pharmacy” were previously published in The Sciences.