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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Cheryl L. Weill received a B.S. degree from the College of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1974. After additional training in molecular neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratories, and Harvard Medical School she embarked on an independent research and teaching career in the Departments of Neurology and Anatomy and the Neuroscience Center at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and concerned the survival of neurons during development, and the identification of the genes and the molecular signals used by neurons for their survival. In 1993, she presented a lecture on the biology of sexual orientation at the PFLAG National Convention and has presented updated material upon which Nature's Choice is based forty-six times to PFLAG chapters, medical school classes, continuing education classes, graduate school classes, churches, social worker and other organizations. She retired from academic science in 1999, obtaineed a Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001, is licensed as an LSW and is in private clinical practice in Denver, CO. Klappentext Nature's Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both a comprehensive review of findings from over twenty years of research on the factor of biology in the determination of sexual orientation and a fresh perspective on this complex and politically charged subject. Zusammenfassung Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both a comprehensive review of findings from over twenty years of research on the factor of biology in the determination of sexual orientation and a fresh perspective on this complex and politically charged subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Definitions Homosexuality is Not a Mental Disorder or Disease Gender Characterization Sexual Orientation Two Myths Summary Chapter 3. Human Sexual Development Morphological Development Neurological Development Summary Chapter 4. Hormones and Sexual Development Gonadal Hormones and How They Work Studies of Normal Animals Animal Experiments Nature’s Human Experiments Summary Chapter 5. Gestational Neurohormonal Theory Neuro-Organization Sex-Typical Behavior Deductions Summary Chapter 6. Science What is Science? Experimental Design What Science Can Tell Us Science in the United States Summary Chapter 7. Genetics Family Studies Twin Studies Genetic Linkage Analysis Specific Genes Summary Chapter 8. Brain Anatomy Sex-Specific Behavior Patterns Suprachiasmatic Nucleus The Anterior Hypothalamus The Anterior Commissure Summary Chapter 9. Sex-Typical Behavior in Children Summary Chapter 10. Anthropometrics: Body Measurements Long Bones Finger Length Ratio Dermatoglypics: Fingerprint Analysis Height and Weight Waist to Hip Ratio in Women Penis Size Onset of Puberty Summary Chapter 11. Sensory Systems ...
