Posted on 11/03/2005 11:52:10 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes.
This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal.
Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate.
Inheritance theory
There is controversy about whether sexual orientation is a matter of choice, the authors of the study admitted to the journal.
Campaigners say equality for homosexual people is the more important issue.
Back in 1993, US researchers suggested male homosexuality was passed from mother to son after they found strong patterns of inheritance in family trees.
There might be...reproductive advantages associated with male homosexuality. The study authors
It has also been noted that homosexual males are more often the younger siblings of a number of older brothers. Scientists have said it might be that the mother develops some kind of resistance to the male Y chromosome in her offspring that makes subsequent baby boys more likely to be born gay.
Scientists doing DNA studies on homosexual brothers pinpointed 'culprit' genetic material to a region of the X chromosome that mothers pass on to their offspring.
But other researchers in the US have not been able to replicate these findings.
Highly fertile
Andrea Camperio-Ciani and colleagues argue genetic factors favouring homosexual male offspring could make women more fertile.
"Our data resolve this paradox by showing that there might be, hitherto unsuspected, reproductive advantages associated with male homosexuality," they said.
They looked at 98 homosexual and 100 heterosexual men and their relatives, which included more than 4,600 people overall.
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'Homosexual Agenda' ping.
Maybe there are general promiscuity combinations of genes.
Huh? The *gay trait* boosts fertility? The law of nature disagrees.
It has also been noted that homosexual males are more often the younger siblings of a number of older brothers. Scientists have said it might be that the mother develops some kind of resistance to the male Y chromosome in her offspring that makes subsequent baby boys more likely to be born gay.
They are blaming mothers for creating gay boys, while also claiming that doing so boosts the ability of these gay children to procreate themselves. ABSURD
What could be the reproductive advantage gained by not reproducing?
I got pinged for a homosexual agenda?
Let me tell you, after a "certain age" you have enough trouble mustering enthusiasm for your own genitals, much less those of perfect strangers.
Doesn't the final "Bigger Picture" section scream bias?
Huh?
Damn right there is...for the straight males, that is.
I don't know. I was just thinking of some Freepers off the top of my head. o.o
Well, I'm flattered....I think.
But why doesn't anyone ever think of me when free liquor or food are involved?
Sexuality must be genetic. When I (male) see a beautiful woman, my reaction is automatic, innate, natural, instinctive. I didn't learn or choose to react this way. It came to me naturally at about age 10. It must be genetic. Age 10 is when most homosexuals realize they are different. Sexual preference must be genetic.
I think it goes earlier than age ten.
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