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Varying gender pattern of childhood injury mortality over time in Scotland
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- Published on: 2 July 2009
- Published on: 2 July 2009This could be due to increasing testosterone: the secular trend.Show More
It is my hypothesis that the "secular trend," the increase in size and earlier puberty in children is caused by an increase in the percentage of individuals of higher testosterone within the population over time. The driving force is an increase in women of higher testosterone within the population over time. This exposes their fetuses to higher levels of testosterone in utero. In groups which began the trend with already h...
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