Battle of the sexes may set the brain

Christopher Badcock and Bernard Crespi
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Christopher Badcock: Christopher Badcock is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
Bernard Crespi: Bernard Crespi is professor of evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada. crespi@sfu.ca

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7208, 1054-1055

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2008
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