The Biology of Homosexuality
Jacques Balthazart
Abstract
This book presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans. Using scientific studies published over the last few decades, it argues that sexual orientation, both homosexual and heterosexual, is under the control of embryonic endocrine and genetic phenomena in which there is little room for individual choice. The book begins with animal studies of the hormonal and neural mechanisms that control the so-called instinctive behaviors and analyzes how this animal work may potentially apply ... More
Keywords: biological mechanisms, sexual orientation, homosexuality, heterosexuality, embryonic endocrine phenomena, genetic phenomena, individual choice, animal studies, instinctive behaviors
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199838820 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199838820.001.0001 |
