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Can you inherit homosexuality?

Peter Moleman31/05/2021Articles, Brain development, Genes and heredityLeave a Comment

I can still remember the commotion which arose in 1990 when Dutch neuroscientist Dick Swaab published an article saying that homosexual men had an area in their hypothalamus which was twice the size of the same area in heterosexual men. Many found the idea – that homosexuality might have a biological basis – quite alarming! At the time I worked … Read More

Nature and nurture: congenital and acquired

Peter Moleman18/01/2018Articles, Genes and heredityLeave a Comment

Nature en nurture; aangeboren en aangeleerd | Peter Moleman

Is it Nature or Nurture, congenital or acquired? The answer is actually quite simple: everything is Nature and Nurture. The structure of the brain determines what we can learn and what we learn determines the structure of the brain.

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