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They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« on: February 05, 2010, 09:36:34 PM »
Other than being able to live off two male incomes.......... ::)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100204144551.htm

turns out, the gay gene is selfishly altruistic
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2010, 09:45:10 PM »
Quote from: I am Nintendo on February 05, 2010, 09:36:34 PM
turns out, the gay gene is selfishly altruistic

Well, we knew it had to be somehow, huh?
That's cool. "Super-uncles"

I wonder why, if homosexuality really works evolutionarily, why couldn't a gene for sterility work just as well?
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2010, 09:51:06 PM »
Because, homosexuality doesn't require extra energy. Not only that, but sterility doesn't grant this behavioral gain.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2010, 10:04:14 PM »
Quote from: Henning on February 05, 2010, 09:45:10 PM
I wonder why, if homosexuality really works evolutionarily, why couldn't a gene for sterility work just as well?

There's genes for that too.  It's just that sterility, in its various forms, isn't as conspicuous.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 11:11:16 PM »
Great. Now not only is Evolution evil, its gay as well.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2010, 11:30:40 PM »
LOL! Can't wait to use that line. :)
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2010, 11:33:03 PM »
The super-uncle theory has been out there for a while. It strikes me a little as a 'just-so story'. Maybe being gay isn't adaptive but is a side effect of other more obviously useful adaptations. Just a thought.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 11:37:26 PM »
Quote from: SnarlPatrick on February 05, 2010, 11:11:16 PM
Great. Now not only is Evolution evil, its gay as well.


And Faaa-abulous...!


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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2010, 11:41:40 PM »
Thought it was fashion sense?
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2010, 11:55:02 PM »
Quote from: Citizen Skeptic on February 05, 2010, 11:30:40 PM
LOL! Can't wait to use that line. :)

too late ;D
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Quote from: SnarlPatrick on February 05, 2010, 11:11:16 PM
Great. Now not only is Evolution evil, its gay as well.

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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2010, 07:20:36 AM »
Well if me and my partner represented a homosexual men in general, which we of course don't this theory is a 50/50 hit.

I love kids and can't wait to be an uncle again, whereas my partner can't stand them.

Personally I think that the gay role in the world is to help get skeptical balls rolling, so to speak.

When you've been told your entire life that you're very existence offends God, you tend to question religion at an early age.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2010, 09:42:49 AM »
Another possibility is that homosexual men help relieve male competition for females within the group, thus leaving more females for the dominant males. This helps relieve in-group tensions.
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2010, 11:16:36 AM »
This is all assuming of course that there is such a thing as homosexuality and that it isn't just a social construction, a false dichotomy, when really sexuality is a spectrum? :)
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2010, 12:04:01 PM »
Quote from: Chas B on February 06, 2010, 11:16:36 AM
This is all assuming of course that there is such a thing as homosexuality and that it isn't just a social construction, a false dichotomy, when really sexuality is a spectrum? :)

Careful now, you're dancing close to claiming bisexuality is real and not just a case of a homosexual being confused. ;)

(Yes, that is a joke. At least half my female friends are bisexual.)
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Re: They figured out the benefit for being homosexual!
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2010, 12:10:46 PM »
Quote from: Chas B on February 06, 2010, 11:16:36 AM
This is all assuming of course that there is such a thing as homosexuality and that it isn't just a social construction, a false dichotomy, when really sexuality is a spectrum? :)

True enough. But one particular gene phenotype can have the effect of moving the organism in a certain direction along a spectrum.
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