The Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Apostolou, Menelaos (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XVIII, 250 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:	1st ed. 2020.
Subjects:	Ethnology. Sex (Psychology). Personality. Difference (Psychology). Sociocultural Anthropology. Psychology of Gender and Sexuality. Personality and Differential Psychology.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53925-2
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: What is to be explained?
Chapter 2: The genetic basis of same-sex attraction
Chapter 3: Environmental factors affecting same-sex attraction
Chapter 4: Evolutionary theories on same-sex attraction
Chapter 5: Same-sex attraction in human history: Classical Greece, Imperial Rome and Christian Europe
Chapter 6: Same-sex attraction in human history: Central and South America, Islamic world, and Asia
Chapter 7: Assessing the evidence from the historical record
Chapter 8: The Weak Selection Pressures Hypothesis
Chapter 9: The weak selection pressures hypothesis: Regulation of mating, male-male competition and social consequences
Chapter 10: The weak selection pressures hypothesis: Male-tolerance, forced sex and desire to have children
Chapter 11: The male choice hypothesis
Chapter 12: Assessing the male choice hypothesis
Chapter 13: Positive selection on male homosexuality
Chapter 14: The evolution of same-sex attraction in men and women.

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