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The WORLD before 1000 BCE
What we know of the Sumerians suggests that Sumerian men were more aggressive than Sumerian women. Studies in biology suggest that such difference might to an extent be genetic rather than just cultural. In the year 2001 a team from the Department of Biology at University of Akron presented a paper to an American Physiological Society conference about male rat aggression being the result of lower levels of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is known to affect mood and to decrease with testosterone increases.
According to Wikipedia, "Enhanced levels of aggression in male mice and monkeys have been associated with the hormone Monoamine Oxidase A.
There are, of course, women more aggressive than some men, represented by the area in brown in the distribution curves above – more aggressive individuals to the right and less aggressive to the left.
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