Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations

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¹ Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK. t.dickins@mdx.ac.uk.
² Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK.

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T E Dickins et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;4(6):782-783.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1187-5. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

¹ Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK. t.dickins@mdx.ac.uk.
² Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK.

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A. Kamath et al. reply.
Kamath A, McDonough CE, Monk JD, Lambert MR, Giglio E. Kamath A, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun;4(6):786-787. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1188-4. Epub 2020 Apr 20. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32313179 No abstract available.

An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals.
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