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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why : The Science of Sexual Orientation by Simon LeVay is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. LeVay helped create this field in 1991 with a much-publicized study in Science, where he reported on a difference in the brain structure between gay and straight men. Since then, an entire sc
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simon LeVay
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199931583
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Psychology, Biology
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (206 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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