http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1412 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/marriage-lowers-testosterone <!--paging_filter--><p>Results of a study done by a team of Harvard University anthropologists increase our knowledge of human biology -- and may have implications for so-called "male menopause." Researchers have long suspected that levels of testosterone -- the hormone largely responsible for fighting, competing, and mating -- decrease when men settle down and start a family. Other studies have shown that testosterone begins to decline shortly after marriage, but surges upward when unions end in divorce. "It makes sense," notes Peter Ellison, professor of anthropology.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/marriage-lowers-testosterone">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:23:44 -0400 70652986 3228 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu