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Ecologist wants to change sex studies to include nature and culture.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Lizards are homebodies.
After meeting their mates, the monogamous reptiles stake out small territories near other lizard couples. They're "close to being suburban," said Joan Roughgarden, a Stanford University ecologist.
Studying the mating habits of lizards isn't so different from studying the mating habits of humans, she thinks. Yet the former is the domain of scientists, the latter the pursuit of anthropologists.
Roughgarden wants to change that historic academic division that separates the way we study sex. She is leading an effort to bring the academic camps together in the hope that one day research will examine the scientific and cultural forces that shape gender and sexuality.
Sex scholarship isn't offered at many universities, said Debbie Herbenich, a ...
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