sociosexual
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sociosexual
Example Sentences
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The animals that engaged in same-sex sociosexual behavior seemed to have slightly better reproductive success.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
It eventually became clear that these primates and many others commonly engage in same-sex sociosexual behaviors whether humans are around or not.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
Savolainen took advantage of the carefully tracked family trees of the Cayo Santiago monkeys and their genetic data to evaluate the role of inheritance in their same-sex sociosexual behaviors.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
For both sexes, in the case of the sociosexual results, they clearly were bimodal.
From Economist ● Feb. 3, 2015
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