The Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction (eBook, PDF) - Apostolou, Menelaos
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary origins of same-sex attraction, evaluating multiple existing evolutionary theories. It combines empirical findings with theoretical arguments in order to review evidence on the prevalence rates of same-sex attraction and determine its genetic and environmental basis.
Among the topics addressed:
Attitudes towards same-sex attraction across human history | Assessing the weak selection pressures hypothesis of attraction | Assessing the male choice hypothesis of attraction | Evolution of same-sex attraction in men versus women…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary origins of same-sex attraction, evaluating multiple existing evolutionary theories. It combines empirical findings with theoretical arguments in order to review evidence on the prevalence rates of same-sex attraction and determine its genetic and environmental basis.

Among the topics addressed:

  • Attitudes towards same-sex attraction across human history
  • Assessing the weak selection pressures hypothesis of attraction
  • Assessing the male choice hypothesis of attraction
  • Evolution of same-sex attraction in men versus women


The Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction will be of interest to academics and students of evolutionary and psychological sciences, filling a gap in literature on the origins of specifically same-sex attraction.

Autorenporträt
Dr Menelaos Apostolou is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was born in Athens, Greece and he completed his post-graduate and graduate studies in the United Kingdom. He has published several peer-reviewed papers, books and chapters in books in the area of evolutionary psychology.