Carole Hooven(@hoovlet):"Associating testosterone with 'lethality' is 'a damaging narrative,' Carole Hooven, [previously an] evolutionary biologist lecturer at Harvard and author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, told me. 'That’s not what testosterone is about. It’s not about killing other humans.'''

Carole Hooven

@hoovlet

Wrote T: The Story of Testosterone. Harvard PhD, taught there for 20 years about behavioral endocrinology, evolution, sex differences. Now Senior Fellow @AEI.

Joined June 2011

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Carole Hooven@hoovlet

2026.08.04 19:44

"Associating testosterone with 'lethality' is 'a damaging narrative,' Carole Hooven, [previously an] evolutionary biologist lecturer at Harvard and author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, told me. 'That’s not what testosterone is about. It’s not about killing other humans.'''