Kanazawa, Satoshi 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3786-8797
(2012)
Intelligence and homosexuality.
Journal of Biosocial Science, 44 (5).
pp. 595-623.
ISSN 0021-9320
Abstract
The origin of preferences and values is an unresolved theoretical problem in behavioural sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel preferences and values than less intelligent individuals, but general intelligence has no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar preferences and values. Ethnographies of traditional societies suggest that exclusively homosexual behaviour was probably rare in the ancestral environment, so the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to identify themselves as homosexual and engage in homosexual behaviour. Analyses of three large, nationally representative samples (two of which are prospectively longitudinal) from two different nations confirm the prediction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2012 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/45501 |
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