> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Matthew Raney went:
>
> > Once again, I had a student ask a good question for which I don't have the
> > answer:  do men have any type of cyclic fluctuation in testosterone
> > levels?

In addition to the daily cycles, there is a seasonal one. Testosterone is higher
in the fall than the spring. I don't have the details of the magnitude of the
fluctuation, but in Doreen Kimura's new book _Sex and Cognition_ MIT Press,
1999, she discusses the relationship between the seasonal variation and
performance on spatial & verbal tasks.


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