The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior

Dean Hamer. Simon & Schuster, $18.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-684-80446-0

A chronicle of the scientific investigation through which Hamer, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute, came to the controversial conclusion that he had discovered the ``gay gene.'' (Dec.)

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