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Carole Hooven

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  1. “And you build a little contraption with a plastic bag and a stick, basically, and you catch the pee as it's flowing down through the leaves. And sometimes the pea catches you on the head or, you know, and you're also trying to get their feces. And then other people were measuring the testosterone levels and trying to understand the relationship between testosterone and all kinds of behaviors, especially sex and aggression, because that's where it's most relevant and male, male, other types of male competition.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I was. So at that time, I was helping with other people's research. So I didn't have my own research program at that point. I later as a grad student collected saliva and analyzed that for male testosterone levels. But at that time, yeah, I had some adventures learning how to collect urine from the chimps and pipette it into test tubes. So what would happen is you have to get up really early in the morning before dawn and you hike out, we hiked out to where the chimps had built their overnight nests. So they build these nests way up in the trees every night when the sun is going down and sleep up there. And if you want to be there when they wake up so you can follow them all day, you need to hike out to where they had built the nest and then wait until they wake up and they stick their rear ends over the side of the nest and they pee.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “To understanding human behavior and the evolutionary or genetic origins of human behavior, but that was how I was introduced to this perspective and what really turned me on ultimately to testosterone because that along with just the raw forces of natural and sexual selection to me were the most, had the most explanatory power in understanding human behavior and particularly sex difference. That's just what I was drawn to. So that's how I got interested in this subject.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “On sex differences in humans because what was so striking to me and really quite thrilling were the differences in the behavior of the males and females. And following the males, it really was just, in many ways, more exciting because there was always a lot of action. There was sex, there was violence, there was a lot of activity. And following the females was beautiful and peaceful because there I personally didn't see any female aggression. It happens and it happens at high rates and in some places and with extreme intensity. But that's not what I saw. And what I did see in many ways paralleled the sex differences that we all see in humans. And chimpanzees don't have human culture. And I'm not saying that we are just like chimps or chimps are the only relevant species.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Biological anthropology. And yeah, I realized I didn't have the right experience. And I eventually, after bothering everybody in the department for quite some time, finally got offered this job out in Uganda. And I really was just driven to understand the evolutionary roots of human behavior. That's what I had really become interested in over time through traveling and reading and taking classes. And I was thrilled when Richard Rangham, who was directing the Kibali chimpanzee project in Uganda, offered me this position out there, which it was supposed to be for a year, but because of extreme violence in the region, I ended up getting evacuated after eight months and sent home. But it was my experience with the chimps that focused, really focused my intellectual curiosity.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “First of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm really thrilled to be here. Can I just request that the audience participate in contributing answers to the firework up the bomb question so we can just take that right off my plate from the start? So yeah, I got into testosterone through a little, obviously, different avenue than you did, apparently, thankfully. Yeah, there's a lot of places I could start, but I think the logical place to start is Uganda. And my experience out in the Ugandan rainforest learning how to do research on wild chimps, and that's before I came to Harvard, that was after my first application to Harvard, the Harvard graduate program in biological anthropology was rejected because I didn't have any, I had been out of college for 10 years. I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. And then I figured out that I wanted to go get a PhD in.”

    2021-07-30 · Intelligence Squared · Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source