Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:>No. Only if they don't impede reproduction as much as not getting a boner for a female.
I get the simplistic argument that being gay might make your genes less likely to be passed on --- that makes sense to me (even though gay people do have kids all the time, and probably did more so throughout human history). But this is not really about what you or I think make sense, or the stories we can invent to explain the facts. The fact is that many researchers have checked the DNA of people who identify as gay and those who identify as straight, and objectively they have found a very strong correlation between that identification and certain genes. They have also found a tendency for gay and straight identification to run in families. This is not a matter of opinion, it just is. Now, we can invent theories to try to explain this objective reality, but whatever else is true, this finding is inconsistent with the idea championed by homophobes that people "choose" to be gay.
To your point:
a new study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, found a correlation between gay men and their mothers and maternal aunts, who are prone to have significantly more children compared to the maternal relatives of straight men.
Researchers led by Andrea Camperio Ciani, from the University of Padova in Italy, say that the findings of the link between homosexuality and female fertility strongly support the "balancing selection hypothesis," which suggests that a gene which causes homosexuality also leads to high fecundity or reproduction among their female relatives.
The team noted that the "gay man gene" may not get passed down directly, but instead survive through the generations through future generations making their male inheritors gay.
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http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/10287/20120613/homosexuality-gene-mother-reproduction-evolution.htm)
I realize that since this is "science" it probably won't hold much water with our grammatically- and punctuationally-challenged PP, but thought others might find it interesting.