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(0)Peter Copeland
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Hamer presents an account of his research into sexual orientation. The book follows his ideas about genetic markers for homosexuality to survey results suggesting that the x-chromosome carries a marker for male homosexuality and speculation on the evolutionary and physiological mechanisms involved. Hamer's research included an exploration of the development of homosexual behavior, family histories, and, finally, statistical and molecular analysis....
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The nature-nurture controversy has never been more hotly debated. Scientists send shock waves through the culture whenever their new theories of what is biologically inherited - as opposed to socially learned - confront our old ideas about the self. Nowhere are these ideas more arduously tested than in the labs of molecular geneticist Dean Hamer, whose discoveries of specific genes linked to behavioral traits - such as anxiety, thrill-seeking, and...