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To: SampleMan
There are no imaginable behaviors that cannot have some outlandish, unprovable evolutionary justification attached to them. Just checking to see if I was still correct.
If we actually cared about the nature of homosexuality, opposed to proving a political point, we'd check the incidence of homosexuality in social versus solitary animals. It's already known that pack animals are disproportionately homosexual(10% of male rams for example). If solitary animals contained fewer homosexuals it would go a long way towards proving the "beneficial to society" argument.
91 posted on 05/20/2008 8:33:47 AM PDT by ketsu
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To: ketsu
If solitary animals contained fewer homosexuals it would go a long way towards proving the "beneficial to society" argument.

Or anything else that you wanted it to "prove", such as that an abundance of hormones in males makes them hyper-sexual, and that other hyper-sexual males are more receptive than the females.

In any event, your premise would provide no proof of societal benefit. For that you would actually have to observe a something called a benefit that could not be explained by other variables.

94 posted on 05/20/2008 8:51:50 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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