When Simon LeVay Examined Interstitial Nucleus 3 in 41 People

question 66

Multiple Choice

 When Simon LeVay examined interstitial nucleus 3 in 41 people who had died, he found that in the homosexual males in his sample, this nucleus was ____.

• A) larger, but only in those who had died of AIDS
• B) comparable in size to the heterosexual males who had died of AIDS
• C) comparable in size to the whole group of heterosexual males
• D) comparable in size to the heterosexual females

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