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David A Puts

David A Puts

Researcher

Sep 14, 2026

47:56
[laughs]
47:57
... um, that there are...
47:58
I think the...
47:59
So one of my early collaborators on this was a, a lab at Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, studying the genetics of the condition.
48:07
And I think it was either 40% of the variation they c- maybe something like that, that they could explain with genetic variants.
48:16
So there's a bunch of causes of the condition that aren't known that, that genes have not been identified, so it's not so simple.
48:23
But the condition is one where, um, so we have, you know, the hypothalamus.

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77:53
And so, so is there truth to this? So like do, so one, do things like masculinized male f- uh, voices, faces, uh, behaviors, so just like, you know, social dominance orientation and that sort of thing, are these things related to testosterone, right? And does this, do women like this? Like is this, does this seem to be attractive to women, um, a- as has been proposed by people who argue that women should like these things because essentially they're trying to choose partners who have the best immune genes on the market.

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