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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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To: Selkie
Saying the MSNBC link is dumbed down doesn't mean anything as it accurately summarizes the study. In the MSNBC article Dickson also said:
"They courted other females, just as a normal male would, except that their sexual advances didn't get very far,"
That's a direct quote from Dickson. It also mentioned how putting a fly's flight gene into a mouse can't make the mouse fly, which you quoted from your link. That has no bearing on the subject.

What does any of this have to do with human homosexuality?

197 posted on 06/07/2005 1:46:36 PM PDT by scripter (Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
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To: Selkie
"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.

If you know that then you might have the capacity to understand both studies cause their specimens to chemically have intersex disorder...ie. mosaic syndrome.

Which is cited where? Balakireva et al, 1998 thank you.

But it's not a bright shiny new study like yours so I guess it's bogus too.

198 posted on 06/07/2005 1:48:39 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (WARNING: Exposure To The Son May Prevent Burning.)
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