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Ancient Homosexuality

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Sexual expression; Sexual orientation

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Tskhay, K.O., Rule, N.O. (2016). Ancient Homosexuality. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3376-1

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