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The sexual brain

Simon LeVay (Author)
This book examines the biological roots of human sexual behavior. It puts forward the case that the diversity of human sexuality can best be understood in terms of the development, structure, and function of the brain circuits that produce it. Discarding preconceptions about the motivation and purpose of sexuality, LeVay discusses the scientific evidence bearing on such questions as why we are sexual animals, what the brain mechanisms are that produce sexual behavior, how these mechanisms differ between men and women and how these differences develop, and finally, what determines a person's sexual orientation: genes, prenatal events, family environment, or early sexual experiences? The book covers evolutionary theory, molecular genetics, endocrinology, brain structure and function, cognitive psychology, and development.--From publisher description
eBook, English, 1993
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993
1 online resource (xvi, 168 pages)
9780262278218, 9780585002996, 0262278219, 0585002991
1014475641
Thou, Nature, art my goddess : genes, environment and sex
Time's millioned accidents : the evolution of sex and sexual behavior
For a woman wert thou first created : the biology of sexual development
What's in the brain that ink may character? : some basic principles of brain organization
The womby vaultage : a visit to the hypothalamus
The beast with two backs : the elements of sexual intercourse
A joy proposed : courtship behavior
The child-changed mother : maternal behavior
The generation of still-breeding thoughts : brain circuits for sexuality
My brain I'll prove the female : sex and brain development
In all suits like a man : sex differences beyond sex
So full of shapes is fancy : sexual orientation and its development
Wrapped in a woman's hide: gender identity and transsexuality
Epilogue. Two artificial gods
"A Bradford book."