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Is there a biological base to sexual orientation?

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Is there a biological base to sexual orientation?
« on: 06/10/2021 14:24:59 »
A listener wrote to us to ask:

Hi! There are people who identify as e.g. bisexual, homosexual etc. Is it possible that it is also biologically linked?

What do you think?
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Re: Is there a biological base to sexual orientation?
« Reply #1 on: 06/10/2021 16:36:55 »
In humans: not as far as anyone knows. Among birds: some possibility of a genetic predisposition to anomalous sexual preference (expressed as triple parenting) in some species. 
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Re: Is there a biological base to sexual orientation?
« Reply #2 on: 13/10/2021 07:45:21 »
Hormones in the foetal stage.
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