In this Sunday's Washington Post, I reviewed Hannah Holmes's book The Well-Dressed Ape. Overall it was a pretty positive review, but I criticized her for the way she linked testosterone (via left-handedness and ring-finger length) with various traits, including violence, autism, homosexuality, etc (see review for details). So I was very interested to see this great post on Neuroskeptic today about the problems with coverage of testosterone (pictured left) and autism. Check it out.
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Testosterone Research and My Latest Washington Post Book Review
Category: Neurology • Publication News and Followups • Science Writing
Posted on: January 23, 2009 12:51 PM, by Rebecca Skloot
In this Sunday's Washington Post, I reviewed Hannah Holmes's book The Well-Dressed Ape. Overall it was a pretty positive review, but I criticized her for the way she linked testosterone (via left-handedness and ring-finger length) with various traits, including violence, autism, homosexuality, etc (see review for details). So I was very interested to see this great post on Neuroskeptic today about the problems with coverage of testosterone (pictured left) and autism. Check it out.
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As I understand it; autism is not caused by high testosterone, high testosterone is caused by autism.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | January 30, 2009 8:31 PM
It could be either - at the moment there's no way of knowing.
Posted by: Neuroskeptic | January 31, 2009 4:51 AM