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| Â | Sexual Development and Behaviour |
 | | Psychosexual Development is a broad term that can be considered the process of growing and maturing physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually so that there is a healthy balance between the physical/biological aspects of sexual behaviour and the psychological and emotional context in which the behaviour occurs. | | | It is thus more appropriate to view a child or adult’s sexual feelings, knowledge and behaviours within the context of that person’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development. | | | Health thus refers to a situation in which a person is able to achieve emotionally intimate relationships, and in which the sexual behaviours arise out of a desire for physical and emotional intimacy rather than out of a distorted attempt to meet some other emotional need. |
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http://www.consulting-psych.com/sex-development.htm
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| Â | Children's Department: Recognizing Healthy and Unhealthy Sexual Development in Children |
| | However, normative (or expected) sexual behaviors are usually not overtly sexual, are more exploratory and playful in nature, do not show a preoccupation with sexual interactions, and are not hostile, aggressive, or hurtful to self or others. | | | Parents who have questions about sexual behavior in children should take the time to learn about sexual development in their child, and be aware of the possibility of sexual difficulties. | | | Other sexual behaviors are more serious and may be dangerous to the child and others. |
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http://www.shpm.com/articles/child_behavior/sexdev.html
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| Â | [E] - Premature Puberty : Is Early Sexual Development the Price of Pollution? (by Becky Gillette) |
| | A recent nationwide study published in Pediatrics raises concerns that incidences of early puberty and other forms of early sexual development may be increasing in the U.S. Nearly half of all black girls and 15 percent of white girls, the study says, are beginning to develop sexually at the age of eight. | | | Fish are not people, and the Pediatrics study will have to be backed up by considerably more research before public concern rises and governmental action occurs. | | | Christina has a condition known as early puberty, and she isn't alone. |
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http://www.emagazine.com/november-december_1997/1197gl_health.html
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| Â | IslamOnline - Contemporary Section |
| | No human behavior, let alone sexual behavior, has been connected to genetic markers to date.…Sexuality, like every other behavior, is undoubtedly influenced by both biological and societal factors. | | | This experimentation may lead to an entrapment and cessation of normal sexual development. | | | The current study drew upon previous literature regarding the healthy early triangulation in which the boy is able to develop both a sense of connectedness to, and distance from, both parents. |
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http://www.islam-online.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/article01-3.shtml
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| Â | Sexual Development through the Life Cycle (Leader's Resource) |
| | Sexuality in adolescent youth (ages 13 to 19) —Once youth have reached puberty and beyond, they experience increased interest in romantic and sexual relationships and in genital sex behaviors. | | | Sexuality in infants and toddlers —Children are sexual even before birth. | | | Such same-gender sexual behavior is unrelated to a child's sexual orientation. |
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http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/lessonplans/sexdevelop.htm
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| Â | Child Sexual Development |
| | Sexually supportive cultures, believing that sex is indispensable to human happiness, encourage early sexual expression as a means of developing adult sexual competency and positive sexual attitudes. | | | Sexual interest, curiosity and, especially, sexual experience cause girls to be devalued by family and peer group alike. | | | Sexual behaviors respond to a stronger biological mandate, becoming a preoccupation which may be characterized by poor social judgment, high risk behavior and lack of discrimination. |
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http://www.ejhs.org/volume3/Haroian/body.htm
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| Â | Inherited Abnormalities of Sexual Development in Dogs and Cats |
| | Again, the female pathway is the "default" program in that the indifferent phenotype will develop as female in the absence of masculinizing signals. | | | However, structures requiring androgens for masculinization fail to develop normally. | | | Cryptorchidism - Cryptorchidism can occur in association with other defects in sexual development, as mentioned above. |
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http://www.ivis.org/advances/Concannon/meyers/chapter_frm.asp?LA=1
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| Â | Reproductive Physiology, etc. |
| | Additionally, androgens are responsible for development of the male reproductive organs during embryonic development, development of secondary sexual characteristics (beard, deeper voice) and behaviors (singing in birds), and production of sperm. | | | In humans, various activities including “flirting&; and “foreplay” lead up to and physiologically stimulate and prepare the couple’s bodies for coitus, and in general, most women need considerably more stimulation over a longer period of time than many men, to physiologically prepare their bodies for sexual intercourse. | | | Also the initial development of external genitalia is similar and it can be difficult to tell the sex of a baby early on. |
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http://www.biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/sexual.htm
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| Â | Father-son Relationships and Male Sexual Development |
| | Increased understanding of human behavior is essential in enabling the clinician to better understand any client's life experience, and there is no empirical evidence to suggest that homosexuality should be an exception to this premise. | | | In this study, individuals who express no desire to change from a homosexual orientation and express no distress regarding the orientation will be considered ego-syntonic. | | | This pattern continues, resulting in a lowered sense of self-esteem and a decreased ability to develop significant same-sex relationships with peers. |
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http://www.narth.com/docs/1996papers/dickson.html
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| Â | Questions and Answers About Sex |
| | Children are human beings and therefore sexual beings. | | | But even infants have curiosity about their own bodies, which is healthy and normal. | | | It's hard for parents to acknowledge this, just as it's hard for children to think of their parents as sexually active. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/sex.html
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| | Unless children are interfered with, their sexual development follows a natural sequence regardless of what society may think about sex at any given time. | | | Ask a Pediatric Behavioral Specialist about your child's problem! | | | The stages listed here are generally true, and are simply intended as guidelines to help you make an initial judgment about whether a specific child’s behavior is ‘normal’ or not. |
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http://www.earlychildhoodbehavioralhealth.com/ChildDev/sexdevelop.htm
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| Â | Abnormalities of Sexual Development in Male Rats with in Utero and Lactational Exposure to the Antiandrogenic ... |
| | We conducted experiments to determine effects of in utero and lactational exposure to the most prevalent phthalate ester, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), on male reproductive system development and sexual behavior. | | | Abnormalities of Sexual Development in Male Rats with in Utero and Lactational Exposure to the Antiandrogenic Plasticizer Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate | | | Key words : antiandrogens, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, in utero exposure, lactational exposure, male reproductive system development, masculine sexual behaviors, reproductive organ agenesis. |
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http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/109p229-237moore/abstract.html
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| Â | Sexual Differentiation in Mammals |
| | Decreased perinatal testosterone in males or testosterone treatment of females has induced same sex preferences and changes in sex-typical patterns of sexual behavior in a wide range in species (rats, hamsters, ferrets, pigs, finches, dogs, sheep etc.). | | | There is some evidence that masculinization of brain occurs later than masculinization of body. | | | Differentiation of gonads, genitals, ducts, and brain occurs at different (but overlapping) time periods during gestation. |
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http://www.uni.edu/walsh/SEXDEV.html
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| Â | Basic Information on Sexual Development |
| | During therapy, people learn to accept that it is okay to be sexual, to have sexual feelings, fantasies and needs, and to get sexual pleasure from your own body. | | | Although sexuality is with us throughout life, sexual behaviours and attitudes change as we change over the years. | | | Sometimes therapists give exercises for clients to practise at home. |
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http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/ppfasexi.html
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| Â | Sexual Development in Childhood |
| | The essays offered in answer to these questions propose to help us understand both the normal range of sexual development in children and the consequences of abusive sexual experiences—objectives that should make this volume an essential resource for teachers, advocates, and social policy professionals as well as for researchers and clinicians. | | | He is the author of Human Sexuality and Its Problems, and was founding editor of Annual Review of Sex Research. | | | The result is a comprehensive presentation of the latest research that is rational, balanced, and thorough. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34243-0.shtml
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| Â | Sexual development |
| | Unlike physical aspects of sex determination, psychological aspects are heavily influenced by culture. | | | Human sexual reproduction involves a complex system of organs. | | | This may be called the seven sexes of humans. |
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http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/jchenowe/sexual.html
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| Â | CBAR |
| | Through courses -- taught in Eisenhower College and campus wide -- and informal interactions with faculty and other students, the Human Sexual and Gender Development minor (department code LHD) will give you an interdisciplinary perspective on the evolving concept of a gendered, sexual self. | | | You do not have to live in Eisenhower College to minor in Human Sexual and Gender Development. However if you are a residential student, we encourage you to do so. | | | Students in the Human Sexual and Gender Development Living Learning Center have been involved in organizing |
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http://www.sunysb.edu/llc/HUMAN.htm
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| Â | Baker Lab: The control of sexual development by dsx |
| | During the past few years these studies, and similar studies in other labs have provided a wealth of information about, and some surprising revelations into how sexual development is brought about. | | | We have therefore been dissecting genital imaginal disc development. | | | We chose the genital disc for these studies both because its adult derivatives show extensive sexual dimorphism, and because it displays some fascinating biology that we hoped to gain insight into. |
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http://cmgm.stanford.edu/devbio/baker/Sex-diff.htm
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| Â | Our Stolen Future: 1991 Wingspread Statement on chemically-induced alterations in sexual development |
| | Laboratory studies corroborate the abnormal sexual development observed in the field and provide biological mechanisms to explain the observations in wildlife. | | | Our Stolen Future: 1991 Wingspread Statement on chemically-induced alterations in sexual development | | | Statement from the work session on chemically-induced alterations in sexual development: the wildlife/human connection. |
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http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Consensus/wingspread1.htm
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| Â | 91.05.07: The Physiological and Psychological Development of the Adolescent |
| | Whereas, the male subcutaneous fat development is much less pronounced, but the development of muscles and bones in the face is clearly seen. | | | Explaining the psychological development of adolescent is difficult due to the lack of empirical research and the great variety of adolescent behavioral modes. | | | Three distinct stages can be identified in the psychological development of the adolescent, even though there is a great deal of overlap in the stages, and they may not occur during the age span indicated. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/5/91.05.07.x.html
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| Â | Womens Health - Menopause, Diet & Weight Loss, Fertility, Breast Cancer & Female Sexuality |
| | A link to another site does not constitute endorsement of that site and Aphrodite Women's Health takes no responsibility for the content of external sites. | | | Female condoms could provide a viable method of protection against HIV - in both the developing world and Western nations - but are being dismissed for the wrong reasons... | | | News and research on fertility, IVF research and other infertility treatments, conception and pregnancy. |
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http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/20021004004758_health_news.shtml
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| Â | Development of Sexual Orientation |
| | its sexual pathways will be masculinized or not. | | | Even in subprimate mammals, mating behavior can be modified by infant care | | | It is wrong to regard prenatal influence as biological and postnatal ones as |
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http://www.iupui.edu/~flip/reading11.html
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| Â | For Sale: Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid Theyd Ask: The Secrets to Surviving ... |
| | The authors review the phases of childrens sexual development and parental experiences with many funny real life examples that get you chuckling and relaxing. | | | The first and perhaps most impressive aspect of the book is that it not only helps you see your childs sexuality through his/her eyes, it also portrays the parents point of view in a helpful and sympathetic way. | | | Its a primer about human sexuality in general, and hence of interest to parents and non-parents alike. |
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http://www.oldcars.com/store0812931572.html
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| Â | Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexuality |
| | Explains how adolescents’ cognitive development affects their sexual decision making … and how you can help them make better decisions | | | Addresses the serious sexual behavior issues that confront teens today … and helps you find the right questions to ask your patients and clients | | | Details how to take a sexual history in a way that promotes the adolescent’s comfort with the discussion |
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http://www.civicresearchinstitute.com/ch9.html
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| Â | Contents: Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexuality |
| | Develop a Sense of Comfort When Discussing Sexuality | | | Chapter 7: Sexuality and Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence | | | Home > Categories > Corrections > Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexuality > Contents |
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http://www.civicresearchinstitute.com/ch9_toc.html
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| Â | The Children of Rage: Child Sexuality |
| | Masturbation and sexual fantasies become integrated and common, especially among males | | | Strong feelings of modesty begin to be expressed | | | Develops positive and/or negative attitudes toward elimination and urination depending on toilet training |
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http://leelydon.tripod.com/ragesexdev.html
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| Â | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Menstruation - absent |
| | In any case, psychosocial support and counseling for the patient and family is necessary to address specific concerns and provide guidance regarding anticipated sexual development. | | | Young women with primary amenorrhea, found to be caused by developmental abnormalities, may require hormonal supplementation, surgery, or both. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003149.htm
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| | This will only occur when progestogen is introduced, and is necessary to keep the uterus healthy. | | | Without progestogen cancer may develop of the uterus. | | | Oestrogen will need to be taken to maintain breast development and vaginal secretions, also for psychological reasons, medically and maybe most importantly, to help prevent coronary heart disease, and to maintain the strength of the bones. |
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http://tslife.homestead.com/sexual_development.html
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| Â | Sexual Health Issues-Compound in Mom Key to Infant Development |
| | FRIDAY, July 16 (HealthDayNews) -- A nutritional compound present in the bodies of pregnant women plays a crucial role in developing cognitive skills and attention spans in infants, says a University of Kansas study. | | | Sexual Health Issues-Compound in Mom Key to Infant Development | | | Disclaimer: The information provided on this website is for educational purposes only and does not serve as a replacement for care provided by your own personal health care team. |
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http://www.sexualhealthissues.com/ms/news/520107/main.html
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| Â | AllRefer.com - Oedipus complex (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia |
| | Many psychiatrists, while acknowledging the significance of the Oedipal relationships to personality development in our culture, ascribe love and attraction toward one parent and hatred and antagonism toward the other not necessarily to sexual rivalry but to resentment of parental authoritarian power. | | | It occurs during the phallic stage of the psycho-sexual development of the personality, approximately years three to five. | | | Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by identification with the parent of the same sex and by the renunciation of sexual interest in the parent of the opposite sex. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/O/Oedipusc.html
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| Â | Sexual Development in Humans |
| | The cloaca contacts the surface of the embryo to produce a bulge consisting of a genital tubercle with genital folds and a larger pair of genital swellings. | | | merms = male pseudohermaphrodites: genetic males who don't fully masculinize during development | | | Gonads develop as bulges near the embryonic kidney and develop into a sac with a core |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/sexdev.html
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| Â | Healthopedia.com - Precocious Puberty (Sexual Precocity) |
| | Precocious puberty is a condition in which these changes occur earlier than normal. | | | Girls may develop breasts prematurely without other changes. | | | Boys or girls may have sexual hair early, without other changes. |
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http://www.healthopedia.com/precocious-puberty/
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| Â | AllRefer Health - Puberty and Adolescence: Description (Adolescence, Maturation - Sexual, Reproductive Development, ... |
| | AllRefer Health - Puberty and Adolescence: Description (Adolescence, Maturation - Sexual, Reproductive Development, Sexual Education, Sexual Maturation) | | | Puberty is when the child experiences physical, hormonal, and sexual changes and becomes capable of reproduction. | | | Alternate Names : Adolescence, Maturation - Sexual, Reproductive Development, Sexual Education, Sexual Maturation |
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http://health.allrefer.com/health/puberty-and-adolescence-info.html
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| Â | Lack of Sexual Development |
| | I’m sure it has been very difficult to manage your problems over the years and the fact that the testosterone replacement had little or no effect on your sexual differentiation was quite disheartening. | | | I am 37 years of age, and have little to no sexual development. | | | You must have been under the care of an Endocrinologist for the care of this disease and I suggest that you see a doctor that specializes in these problems to get the latest information. |
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http://www.medhelp.org/forums/urology/archive/1313.html
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| Â | Sexual development info at iVillage.com |
| | Clinical Psychologist Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., has been in private practice for almost 30 years counseling children, couples and families. | | | Sexuality Education: What Every Preschooler Needs to Know | | | PARENT SOUP -- Are You Teaching Your Children What They Need to Know about Sexuality? |
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http://www.ivillage.com/topics/parenting/0,,448541,00.html
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| Â | Dr. David Crews, U.T. Austin |
| | On the organization of individual differences in sexual behavior. | | | Crews has published over 250 research articles, book chapters, and essays in the areas of reproductive biology, neuroscience and endocrinology and edited three books. | | | Consequences of hormone disruption of sexual development for crocodilian conservation. |
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http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/CREWS.HTM
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| Â | The Hormonal Control of Sexual Development :: Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students |
| | It has two functions; it promotes maturation of the spermatogenic tubules (and is therefore indirectly effecting the levels of Mullerian-inhibiting substance), and it has its well known essential role in the development of the male genital tract. | | | The researchers went through an extremely extensive explanation of the formation of the sexual phenotypes by detailing the development of germ cells. | | | If at any point this system is disrupted in any way, one either has the underdevelopment or incorrect development of the phenotypical gonadal characteristics. |
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http://www.essaysample.com/essay/002749.html
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| Â | BBC News HEALTH Chemicals 'stunt sexual development' |
| | But they also found high levels of two particular chemical pollutants, dioxins and PCBs, in the children's bodies, both of which are thought to retard sexual development. | | | Scientists have found 300 man-made chemicals in the body | | | Teenagers living near waste incinerators sexually mature later than their peers. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1349000/1349245.stm
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| Â | NSF - OLPA - PR 02-26: POPULAR WEED KILLER DISRUPTS FROGS’ SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT |
| | "Because it is so widespread, aquatic environments are at risk." Because the herbicide has been in use for 40 years in some 80 countries, its effect on sexual development in male frogs could be one of many factors in the global decline of amphibians, he added. | | | The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). | | | Nevertheless, the effects of atrazine on frogs could be a sign that the herbicide is subtly affecting human sex hormones, too, interfering with androgens, such as testosterone, that control male sex characteristics. |
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http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0226.htm
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| Â | The Sexual Development of Yeast |
| | The spores' development is surprisingly similar to the development of human sperm and eggs. | | | Brown used this technique in 1998 to study the sexual development of yeast in collaboration with Ira Herskowitz at the University of California, San Francisco. | | | A searchable database of all the data from this project is now available on Brown's Web site ( cmgm.stanford.edu/pbrown), where anyone can apply the information to human sperm and eggs (whose formation, according to Herskowitz, is still "very poorly understood") or to analyze other developmental processes. |
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http://www.hhmi.org/genesweshare/a130.html
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| Â | Mating Recognition and Sexual Development in Fungi |
| | Sexual development of Sordaria macrospora requires ATP citrate lyase activity | | | Mating Recognition and Sexual Development in Fungi -- Carlene Raper and Lorna Casselton (Co-chairs) |
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http://www.fgsc.net/asilo99/mating.htm
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| Â | Introduction to Jacques Lacan, Module on Psychosexual Development |
| | Introduction to Jacques Lacan, Module on Psychosexual Development | | | If you can only see these words, then you require a newer version of your web browser, one that is capable of viewing frames. |
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http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/psychoanalysis/lacandevelop.html
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