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SUBMITTER: Branas-Garza P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731481 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brañas-Garza Pablo P Espín Antonio M AM García-Muñoz Teresa T Kovářík Jaromír J
Biology letters 20190828 8
Prenatal exposure to sex hormones exerts organizational effects on the brain which have observable behavioural correlates in adult life. There are reasons to expect that social behaviours-fundamental for the evolutionary success of humans-might be related to biological factors such as prenatal sex hormone exposure. Nevertheless, the existing literature is inconclusive as to whether and how prenatal exposure to testosterone and oestrogen, proxied by the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D : 4D), may ...[more]