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.
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.-&nblS?
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