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nene
Joined: 11 Jun 2005
Location: Samcheok, Gangwon-do
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| Explaining homosexuality evolutionarily is a tough and touchy subject, and I don't claim to understand it fully. But I think the problem with the theory that you present is that those genes won't be stable. That is, in individuals in whom that phenotype (homosexuality) arises, the genes won't be propogated, hense that gene and trait will be lost. Bi-sexuality is, of course, an entirely different matter.... |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| nene wrote: |
| Explaining homosexuality evolutionarily is a tough and touchy subject, and I don't claim to understand it fully. But I think the problem with the theory that you present is that those genes won't be stable. That is, in individuals in whom that phenotype (homosexuality) arises, the genes won't be propogated, hense that gene and trait will be lost. Bi-sexuality is, of course, an entirely different matter.... |
I don't claim to know much detail about the hypothesis - I think I read it in a side column in a popular science magazine - but the idea isn't that homosexuality is passed on directly, rather that populations with a certain rate of it have an advantage and so will have a stable rate of the phenotype in the genepool. Or something.
The gay thing wasn't the point though - more that since we're a hive species you don't necessarily have to be reproducing personally to be doing your bit biologically. |
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nene
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| But that's not biological; that's societal. |
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gang ah jee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| nene wrote: |
| But that's not biological; that's societal. |
I was about to try to argue that for a species like ours the societal in a lot of cases is also the biological, but meh. You're right.
Let's hope we've made all the drones out there feel better, eh? |
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