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The “trouble with testosterone” starts in utero (in the womb) when the embryo with the XY gene gets its first flood of testosterone and starts the journey to becoming male. All embryos start out female and it is only after a few weeks that they start to differentiate in terms of gender. Female embryos carry the XX chromosomes and males the XY.
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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© 2015 Tara Swart, Kitty Chisholm, Paul Brown
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Swart, T., Chisholm, K., Brown, P. (2015). Testosterone, Risk and Entrepreneurship. In: Neuroscience for Leadership. The Neuroscience of Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466877_4
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