James D. Weinrich

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James Donald "Jim" Weinrich (born 1950) is an American

The Journal of Sex Research (co-authored with Richard Pillard). Weinrich served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bisexuality from 2011 to 2014. He has also served on the editorial boards for The Journal of Sex Research and the Journal of Homosexuality
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Life and career

Weinrich earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1972. He graduated with a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1976.[1] He was Robert Trivers' first graduate student, and his 1976 dissertation addressed social-class differences in heterosexual behaviors, and the evolutionary adaptiveness of same-sex attraction.[2][3]

For the next three years, he was a

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Among Weinrich's contributions are the "Limerent and Lusty Sex Theory" developed with Richard Pillard, which holds that there are two kinds of

sex drives, and that both exist in men and women.[4] He and Pillard also found that homosexuality runs in some families.[5]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ Weinrich JD, "Human Reproductive Strategy" (PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1976).
  2. ^ Wilson EO (1978). On human nature. "The role of homosexuals in hunter-gatherer and advanced societies is described by James D. Weinrich in "Human reproductive strategy" (Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1976)."
  3. Washington Post
  4. ^ Talan, Jamie (August 19, 1986). Of Gays And Gay Siblings. Newsday

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