Bruce Bagemihl [SEP] occupation
Bruce Bagemihl
Bruce Bagemihl is a Canadian biologist, linguist, and author of the book "Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity".
Life and career.
He served on the faculty of University of British Columbia, where he taught linguistics and cognitive science, and earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from there in 1988.
"Biological Exuberance" cites numerous studies on more than 450 species (see List of animals displaying homosexual behavior) showing that homosexual and bisexual behaviors are common among animals and proposes a theory
behavior in animals to different degrees. The motivations for and implications of these behaviors have yet to be fully understood, since most species have yet to be fully studied. According to Bruce Bagemihl, the animal kingdom engages in homosexual behavior "with much greater sexual diversity – including homosexual, bisexual and nonreproductive sex – than the scientific community and society at large have previously been willing to accept." Bagemihl adds, however, that this is "necessarily an account of human interpretations of these phenomena". Simon LeVay introduced