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==Career== ===Textbook=== Kinsey published a widely used high-school textbook, ''An Introduction to Biology'', in October 1926. The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany. ===Edible plants=== Kinsey also co-wrote a classic book on edible plants with [[Merritt Lyndon Fernald]] published in 1943 called ''Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America''. This book is still regarded as an authoritative source in the area, but is not generally associated with Kinsey. The original draft of the book was written in 1919-1920, while Kinsey was still a doctoral student at the Bussey Institute and Fernald was working at the [[Arnold Arboretum]].<ref>Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." ''Natural History'', ISSN 0028-0712, [[July 1]] [[2006]], vol. 115, issue 6.</ref> === Human sexual behavior and the Kinsey Reports === Kinsey is generally regarded as the father of [[sexology]], the systematic, scientific study of [[human sexuality]]. He initially became interested in the different forms of sexual practices around 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, [[Robert Kroc]]. It is likely that Kinsey's study of the variations in mating practices among gall wasps led him to wonder how widely varied sexual practices among humans were. During this work, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the [[Kinsey Scale]] which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively [[heterosexuality|heterosexual]] and 6 is exclusively [[homosexuality|homosexual]]; a rating of 7, for [[asexuality|asexual]], was added later by Kinsey's associates. In 1935, Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his view that "delayed marriage" (that is, delayed sexual experience) was psychologically harmful. Kinsey obtained research funding from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], which enabled him to inquire into human sexual behavior. His ''[[Kinsey Reports]]''—starting with the publication of ''[[Sexual Behavior in the Human Male]]'' in 1948, followed in 1953 by ''[[Sexual Behavior in the Human Female]]''—reached the top of bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into an instant celebrity, and are still the best selling scientific books of all time. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Life magazine|Life]]'', ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'', and ''[[McCall's]]''. Kinsey's reports, which led to a storm of controversy, are regarded by many as an enabler of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Indiana University's president [[Herman B Wells]] defended Kinsey's research in what became a well-known test of [[academic freedom]]. ===Significant publications=== *"New Species and Synonymy of American [[Cynipidae]]," in ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' (1920) *"Life Histories of American Cynipidae," in ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' (1920) *"Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics," in ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' (1920) *''An Introduction to Biology'' (1926) *''The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species'' (1930) *''New Introduction to Biology'' (1933, revised 1938) *''The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips'' (1935) *''Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America'' (1943) *The [[Kinsey Reports]]: **''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (1948, reprinted 1998) **''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'' (1953, reprinted 1998)
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