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To: Selkie; Clint N. Suhks
When you excerpted part of the study you didn't really demonstrate how it ties in with human homosexuality. Dickson said (in one of the links I provided in post 189)
The study has no immediate implications for human sexuality.

In the URL you provided,

But the researchers caution that controls on a fruitfly's sexual behaviour are undoubtedly different from our own. "In the case of humans, we know that our sexual behaviours are not irreversibly set by our genes," says Dickson. "But that doesn't mean the genes have no influence," he adds.

"There's still a lot of mystery surrounding the causes of homosexuality," says Hans Van Gossum of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, who has studied fly mating patterns. "It's too early to draw strong conclusions on simple mechanisms like this."

What I believe is happening here is more of the same stuff we see all the time. Certain news makes headlines but it really can't be tied into human homosexuality. The following link summarizes a lot of the headlines we see from the main stream media: The Animal Homosexuality Myth
192 posted on 06/07/2005 1:00:44 PM PDT by scripter (Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
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To: scripter
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=25549 The MSNBC story is dumbed down , more cohesive link above

Putting gene X into another species and expecting to see a behavior is unrealistic--a 'flight' gene from Drosophila, if it existed, is not going to make a mouse fly," Dickson explains, noting that only members of the same species might be expected to share the same set of "normal" behaviors.

"So you need to put gene X in a normal animal of the same species that doesn't normally do Y. This is really only possible with sex-specific behaviors" like courtship, he says.

194 posted on 06/07/2005 1:23:56 PM PDT by Selkie ("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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