Anthony Bogaert

Anthony Francis Bogaert
Born	1963 (age 60–61)
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario
Known for	Research into asexuality
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Brock University
Thesis	The Sexual Media: The Role Of Individual Differences (1993)

Anthony Francis "Tony" Bogaert is a Canadian psychologist. He is a professor in both the Departments of Psychology and of Community Health Sciences at Brock University.

Research

Bogaert is known for studying multiple subjects related to human sexuality, including asexuality. He has also published studies examining the relationship between the number of brothers a man has and his sexual orientation. These studies have concluded that the more older brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay, and that this effect is due to prenatal factors, not environmental ones. In his early career, Bogaert worked with J. Philippe Rushton to publish a paper hypothesizing biological evidence of Race differences. This paper was critiqued two years later by Michael Lynn who stated:

First, they did not explain why natural selection would have favored different reproductive strategies for different races. Second, their data on race differences are of questionable validity because their literature review was selective and their original analyses were based on self-reports. Third, they provided no evidence that these race differences had significant effects on reproduction or that sexual restraint is a K characteristic. Finally, they did not adequately rule out environmental explanations for their data.

External links

• Faculty page