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</ref> which might suggest mutations are generally a stronger factor than toxins. | </ref> which might suggest mutations are generally a stronger factor than toxins. | ||
On the other hand, declines in T affect all age groups nearly equally, suggesting estrogenic toxins might be acting on all age levels (while mutations would be expected to affect the younger generations more). | On the other hand, declines in T affect all age groups nearly equally, suggesting estrogenic toxins might be acting on all age levels (while mutations would be expected to affect the younger generations more). | ||
Both mutations and developmental insults due to pollutants could explain why women simultaneously see a masculinization due to them perhaps also regressing to a less defined intersex phenotype, with men experiencing a stronger trend due to their phenotype being overall less stable lacking the sex chromosome redundancy as also evidenced by the [[variability hypothesis]]. Women's phenotype may be more stable because it is arrested in development and more neotenous, and perturbations may prevent full development. | |||
=== Culture === | === Culture === | ||