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 The 1996 Hyperion edition | |
| Author | Chandler Burr |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Psychology |
| Publisher | Hyperion |
| Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 354 |
| ISBN | 0-78-68-6081-2 |
A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation is a 1996 book about the development of sexual orientation by Chandler Burr. The book was praised by Germaine Greer, who described it as a "good commentary", and Marlene Zuk, who described it as an, "Excellent discussion of the various findings about the biological basis of sexual orientation."
Philosopher Edward Stein has called the book "unsophisticated", commenting that it fails to discuss social constructionist views of sexual orientation and takes at face value research that claims to have identified the factors that cause homosexuality in fruit flies, including the discovery of a single gene that supposedly controls courtship behavior between male flies. Stein believes that such research is guilty of extreme anthropomorphism, and is irrelevant to understanding sexual orientation in humans.
Burr, according to Timothy Murphy, is guilty of factual errors, among them the claim that Simon LeVay's 1991 neuroanatomical report was the first major biological investigation of sexual orientation. Murphy notes that study of the determinants of sexual orientation dates to the 19th century, and that there were many investigations of its possible biological basis prior to LeVay's work.
References
- Burr, Chandler (1996). A Separate Creation. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-78-68-6081-2.
- Greer, Germaine (1999). The Whole Women. London: Transworld Publishers. p. 344. ISBN 0-385-60016-X.
- Zuk, Marlene (2002). Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 218. ISBN 0-520-21974-0.
- Stein, Edward (1999). The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation. Berkeley: Oxford University Press. pp. 166, 350. ISBN 0-19-514244-6.
- Murphy, Timothy F. (1997). Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 238. ISBN 0-231-10849-4.