Sociologists have criticized scientists searching for a "gay gene" for their narrow understanding of sexual orientation.Scientists' approach does not take into account the way biology and the social environment interact to produce sexual behaviors.Which of the following theorists makes this point?
A) Simon LeVay, who believes that "there's growing evidence to support the idea that biological and developmental factors before birth exert a strong influence on sexual orientation"
B) Dean Hamer, who examined the DNA of forty gay brothers and found that thirty-three of them had a statistically significant similarity in the Xq28 region of the X chromosome
C) Social historian Jeffrey Weeks, who points out that even though homosexual acts have been documented throughout history, homosexual identity as we know it today didn't exist before the twentieth century
D) Laura Allen and Roger Gorski, two scientists at UCLA who reported that a segment of the fibers that connect the brain's hemispheres is up to one-third larger in homosexual men

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Social historian Jeffrey Weeks emphasizes that sexual orientation is not solely determined by biology, but also influenced by social and cultural factors. He argues that sexual identity as we know it today is a modern construct and did not exist in the same way in the past.

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