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gay gene  

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  • Plato may have offered the first explanation of homosexuality as an inborn trait in the Symposium, written in the 5th century b.c.e.: he suggests that all humans originally were paired, and homosexuals are the separated halves of male-male pairs. Two pioneers of the modern study of sexuality, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–95) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) also believed that homosexuality was an innate characteristic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Gay Gene]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MW87CZXR-G

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