Julia Monk is passionate about combating bias in scientific research. Her work on homosexuality in animals is a great example of this. Monk and her colleagues propose a shift from asking “Why engage in homosexual behavior?” to “Why not?”. They propose that the most likely ancestral condition of animals involves “indiscriminate sexual behaviors directed to all sexes” which includes both same-sex and different-sex sexual behavior. This assumption means that behavioral bisexuality would be the foundational state of animals, and that environmental and other evolutionary pressures then changed the
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