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- From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Heredity of homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1259@taniwha.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 00:17:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.201354.15136@husc3.harvard.edu> <78584@ut-emx.uucp> <BtpG7p.M78@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In <78584@ut-emx.uucp> zeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mark Gansle) writes:
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- >I think what Jeff was saying was that a gene for homosexuality must
- >necessarily be evolutionarily disadvantageous. Women and men who had no
- >desire to have sex with members of the opposite sex would be unable to
- >bear children and so unable to pass the gene (or genes) for
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- Having a gene that causes a tendancy to homosexuality might be advantageous,
- especially to those who carry it but are not gay - in a hunter-collector
- society there might be great survival advantages to having unattached uncles
- or aunts around your family unit who don't have to support families of
- their own .....
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- Paul
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- How do you tell when George Bush is lying?
- You read his lips ...
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