A Separate Creation

The Story

Chandler Burr's widely praised Atlantic Monthly cover story was the first to introduce readers to the astonishing research being conducted on the question of what -- at a biological level -- made a person either heterosexual or homosexual.Now Burr's A Separate Creation -- highly praised in hardcover by the scientific community as well as the popular press ('(T)his may be both the gay studies book of the year and the popular-science book of the year'. -- Ray Olsen, Booklist) -- offers a fascinating, critical, and comprehensive investigation into one of today's most contentious scientific arenas: advanced biological research.The first and only overview of the complete spectrum of this revolutionary new science, Burr's ground-breaking work encompasses the fields of neurobiology, endocrinology, and genetics, taking us to laboratories where researchers are using incredible technology to trace the source of our sexual orientation and even look at ways in which it might be manipulated. From animal studies of 'ovulating' male rats and hermaphroditic hyenas, to the firestorm surrounding the claim of the discovery of a gay gene, from a si