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Paul L. Vasey is a Professor and Board of Governors Research Chair at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He conducts cross-cultural and cross-species research on the proximate and ultimate underpinnings of non-conceptive sex in humans and non-human animals.
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Early Life and Educational Background
Paul L. Vasey was born in Toronto, Canada, on January 30, 1966. Vasey was awarded his B.A. (Honors) from the University of Alberta in 1989. In 1991, he received his M.A. from Simon Fraser University. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal. Dr. Vasey conducted postdoctoral research at the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and York University.
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Japanese Macaque Research
From 1995 to 2015, Paul L. Vasey conducted research on the development and...
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Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., Ottenheimer-Carrier, L., & Vasey, P. L. (2014). Intergroup variation in non-conceptive mounting behavior in Japanese macaques: Could it be cultural? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 1, 381–405.
Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., & Vasey, P. L. (2015). Comparative development of heterosexual and homosexual behaviors in free-ranging female Japanese macaques. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1215–1231.
Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., Huffman, M. J., & Vasey, P. L. (2015). Effect of female-biased sex ratios on female homosexual behavior in Japanese macaques: Evidence for the “bisexual preference hypothesis”. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2125–2138.
Semenyna, S., Petterson, L. J., VanderLaan, D. P., & Vasey, P. L. (2017). A comparison of reproductive output among the relatives of Samoan androphilic fa’afafine and gynephilic men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 87–93.
VanderLaan, D. P., Ren, Z., & Vasey, P. L. (2013). Male androphilia in the ancestral environment: An ethnological analysis. Human Nature, 24, 375–401.
VanderLaan, D. P., Petterson, L. J., & Vasey, P. L. (2016). Femininity and kin-directed altruism in homosexual men: A test of an evolutionary developmental model. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 619–633.
Vasey, P. L. (1998). Female choice and inter-sexual competition for female sexual partners in Japanese macaques. Behaviour, 135, 579–597.
Vasey, P. L. (2006). The pursuit of pleasure: Homosexual behaviour, sexual reward and evolutionary history in Japanese macaques. In V. Sommer & P. L. Vasey (Eds.), Homosexual behaviour in animals: An evolutionary perspective (pp. 191–219). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vasey, P. L., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2012). Is female homosexual behaviour in Japanese macaque truly sexual? In J. B. Leca, M. J. Huffman, & P. L. Vasey (Eds.), The monkeys of stormy mountain: Over half a century of research on the Arashiyama macaques (pp. 153–172). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vasey, P. L., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2014). Evolving research on the evolution of male androphilia. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 23, 137–147.
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Petterson, L.J. (2018). Paul Vasey. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_214-1
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