Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament

The adrenocortical stress-response is extraordinarily conserved across mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, suggesting that it has been present during the hundreds of millions of years of vertebrate existence. Given that antiquity, it is relatively recent that primate social complexity ha...

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Main Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
Series:Neurobiology of Stress
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235228952100028X