Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial PerspectiveCambridge University Press, 19.08.2010 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 unique to humans. Poiani and Dixson invite the reader to embark on a journey through the evolutionary, biological, psychological and sociological aspects of homosexuality, seeking an understanding of both the proximate and evolutionary causes of homosexual behavior and orientation in humans, other mammals and birds. The authors also provide a synthesis of what we know about homosexuality into a biosocial model that links recent advances in reproductive skew theory and various selection mechanisms to produce a comprehensive framework that will be useful for anyone teaching or planning future research in this field. |
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2 The comparative study of homosexual behaviour | 33 |
3 Genetics of homosexuality | 55 |
4 Ontogenetic processes | 97 |
a network of causality for homosexual behaviour | 159 |
6 Immunology and homosexuality | 265 |
7 Sexual segregation effects | 283 |
8 The social life history and ecological theatres of animal homosexual behaviour | 323 |
9 Homosexual behaviour in primates Alan Dixson | 381 |
10 A Biosocial Model for the evolution and maintenance of homosexual behaviour in birds and mammals | 401 |
Glossary | 427 |
Predictions of the Synthetic Reproductive Skew Model of Homosexuality and results obtained in the comparative tests of the model carried out in bir... | 435 |
Comments on further results of comparative analyses of independent contrasts reported in the full correlation matrices of birds and mammals | 441 |
REFERENCES | 443 |
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