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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
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Date: 2 Aug 90 14:50:22 GMT
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In article <766@infohh.rmi.de> diercks@infohh.rmi.de (Peter Diercks) writes:
>Kaplan claims to have found out that homosexuality in both sexes is
>caused by a certain hormonal disorder in the mother's organism during
>certain periods of pregnancy.

What makes it a "disorder" rather than a "variation" (other than researcher's
bias, that is)?
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