Battle of the sexes may set the brain (original) (raw)

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A tug-of-war between the mother's and father's genes in the developing brain could explain a spectrum of mental disorders from autism to schizophrenia, suggest Christopher Badcock and Bernard Crespi.

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  1. Christopher Badcock is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.,
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  2. Bernard Crespi is professor of evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada. crespi@sfu.ca ,
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Badcock, C., Crespi, B. Battle of the sexes may set the brain.Nature 454, 1054–1055 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4541054a

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