How come I didn't get a job in a University? Well at the time it was a realistic option I thought that the big wide world of business seemed much more exciting. How wrong I was.
Charles E. Roselli is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, OHSU School of Medicine and he has been studying sexual orientation in male sheep. Now there is excitement for you.
The Green Man is more of a cow person than a sheep person so it came as a bit of a surprise to find out that approximately 8% of rams "bat for the other team".
It seems from Chuck's research that a male sheep's preference for same-sex partners has a biological basis. Apparently brain anatomy and hormone production may determine whether adult rams decide to adopt a happy and gay lifestyle. They have discovered a densely packed cluster of nerve cells in the hypothalamus of the sheep brain, which they named the ovine sexually dimorphic nucleus or oSDN. This area of the brain was significantly smaller in those rams that preferred other rams to ewes.
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or read the most recent entries here.Fascinating...isn't that close to the percentage of humans who are non-heterosexual?
Posted by: Jonathan at March 10, 2004 12:48 AM
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