Hormone Praise>, Marty Hazelton, Byun

< Yong-ran Station, Science Books, 2022

This book helps you get a more accurate picture of human beings, and it allows you to see how the strategies adopted by the species for survival and reproduction have affected culture and evolution. Women also don't know much about men, and men also don't know much about women, so this book can give you hints of mutual understanding. If you have any thoughts on dating and marriage, whether you're a man or a woman, you should read it at least once.

The author, who is a woman, emphasizes that she is too much of a woman throughout the book and that accurately recognizing reality through science is the way to solve problems and develop them. It is a book to stand up to and persuade people who have been overly politically motivated. It can be read that the author refrained from commenting. Martin Hazelton seems to have suffered criticism and attack throughout his career, but he is now confident in his evidence and research results to the point that he may have declared victory.

I met someone on Facebook and I learned about the problems of fMRI research. It gave me the power to look at the research results with fMRI with doubt. And he criticized the research that involved fMRI as a protest against the hypothesis of evolutionary psychology, and cast doubt on the whole evolutionary psychology. At the time, I also had some agreement. However, in the field of economics (against the female community's claim that criticized evolutionary psychology), he smashed it well through various research methods, and this time, he smashed a lot of these criticisms through various research results of evolutionary psychology itself.

On the other hand, this book is a book that can expand the horizon of perception of people themselves, apart from men and women. Not only are women dominated by hormones, but so are men, which can be seen as the ability of the species of humans to gain from the wisdom of evolution over hundreds of millions of years.

Species called organisms are designed for reproduction anyway, and gender selection increases the pressure on evolution. Therefore, choosing a mate is always a strategic action because individual creatures must efficiently design a strategy that will enable them to thrive most of their 'own' genes to leave behind and maintain descendants. This behavior leads to the prosperity of the 'species' itself.

To this end, humans have created a system that effectively conveys accumulated knowledge in later generations by constructing society and teaching culture. In the process, each individual that makes up society also needs to carefully select mates so that they can effectively leave their own genes, and as a result, they have the ability to properly adjust the effects of hormones.

Men and women are forced to have different factors in pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. Humans have a new challenge: long, long parenting, as a result of choosing a large brain and culture. To address this, we have developed a more complex strategy, rather than having to make animal choices based on previous instructions on hormones. There are a number of complex changes, including the strategic choice of a mate, the existence of a grandmother who cares not only for her children with 50% of her genes, but also for the generation of grandchildren with 25% of her genes, and strategies to select social objects that help with child-rearing, as well as genetic superiority. And this book proposes hypotheses that effectively explain the process and supports them in several experiments.

As the author said, we have the right to understand how our bodies and minds work and why. Hormonal misunderstandings resulting from past misconceptions have sparked backlash because they have been linked to sexism. However, it is not correct to 'lose the baby in biology while trying to throw away the bathwater called sexism'.

Accurate understanding of biological changes allows us to have a clearer understanding of ourselves, which allows us to make smarter decisions. This book can help us understand what intelligent hormones are. As the author said, I believe science is the most important tool for us to make good choices.

'Know the science. Know yourself. Then you will make decisions based on the best information.'

<A good book to read together>

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