Postmortem studies of brains of gay and heterosexual men and women have shown differences in the size of
a. the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
b. the corpus callosum.
c. the cerebral cortex.
d. the prefrontal cortex.
e. the occipital lobe.
Answer: a. the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
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