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By Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland. Approximately 217 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994. $23. ISBN 0-671-88724-6.

Hamer and Copeland tell a good story. Their book describes how Hamer and his colleagues searched for and found evidence of genetic linkage in male homosexuality. Their finding of a correlation between homosexual orientation and the inheritance of polymorphic markers on the X chromosome in 64 percent of 40 pairs of homosexual brothers has created a stir in the scientific community. It has inflamed the nature-versus-nurture debate, caused both excitement and concern in the gay community, and led to intense speculation about what can really be inherited in an area as complicated as human sexuality.

The book is a well-written . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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