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To: Area Freeper
Posit for me please an independant natural value for homosexual behavior.

It does not seem to me in the slightest implausible that a gene might cause people who carry it (whether male or female) to be unusually-strongly attracted to females; while this would likely reduce reproductive success rates for females with the gene, it might increase it for males sufficiently to offset the reduction in females.

It is also not implausible that another gene might cause attraction toward males, again with similar (but sex-reversed) consequences.

60 posted on 08/12/2004 6:20:15 PM PDT by supercat (If Kerry becomes President, nothing bad will happen for which he won't have an excuse.)
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To: supercat

Since women can only be gestating one offspring at a time, they are a much more valuable part of the "natural selection" process. Any trait that caused a percentage of females to be less likely to reproduce would be selected against.


62 posted on 08/13/2004 6:27:27 AM PDT by Area Freeper (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!)
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