Why Gays Don't Go Extinct?
Jul. 1st, 2008 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ristinWhy Gays Don't Go Extinct?
http://www.livescience.com/health/080617-hereditary-homosexuality.html
Homosexuality in males may be caused in part by genes that can increase fertility in females, according to a new study.
The findings may help solve the puzzle of why, if homosexuality is hereditary, it hasn't already disappeared from the gene pool, since gay people are less likely to reproduce than heterosexuals.
A team of researchers found that some female relatives of gay men tend to have more children than average. The scientists used a computer model to explain how two genes passed on through the maternal line could produce this effect.
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I wonder how much longer studies about biological reasons for homosexuality this will continue to be brushed off as 'isolated'?
http://www.livescience.com/health/080617-hereditary-homosexuality.html
Homosexuality in males may be caused in part by genes that can increase fertility in females, according to a new study.
The findings may help solve the puzzle of why, if homosexuality is hereditary, it hasn't already disappeared from the gene pool, since gay people are less likely to reproduce than heterosexuals.
A team of researchers found that some female relatives of gay men tend to have more children than average. The scientists used a computer model to explain how two genes passed on through the maternal line could produce this effect.
More text in the original article, including links.
I wonder how much longer studies about biological reasons for homosexuality this will continue to be brushed off as 'isolated'?
