Animal homosexuality : a biosocial perspective /
"Homosexuality is an evolutionary paradox in search for a resolution, not a medical condition in search for a cure. Homosexual behavior is common among social animals, and mainly expressed within the context of a bisexual sexual orientation. Exclusive homosexuality is less common, but not uniqu...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Animal homosexuality in evolutionary perspective
- 2. The comparative study of homosexual behaviour
- 3. Genetics of homosexuality
- 4. Ontogenetic processes
- 5. The endocrine and nervous systems : a network of causality for homosexual behaviour
- 6. Immunology and homosexuality
- 7. Sexual segregation effects
- 8. The social, life-history and ecological theatres of animal homosexual behaviour
- 9. Homosexual behaviour in primates
- 10. A biosocial model for the evolution and maintenance of homosexual behaviour in birds and mammals.