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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
If homosexuality was genetic, don't you think it will weed itself out in a few generations? I mean, really, it's not like they're passing the gene.
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I read
Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain a little while back. He has some interesting speculations on the value of male pattern baldness, left-handedness, homosexuality . . .
These may be forms of meta- patterns in evolution. Secondary patterns or even tertiary patterns, developing because we have had just so damned much time to evolve socially, biologically, you name it. He is the fellow that gave me the idea posted earlier that the impact of homosexuality in the original small groups that humanity developed in for lo these 180,000 years or so (not to mention our forbears who go back millions of years before that) had a positive value in the survival of the group. When enough groups survive because they happen to have lefties, baldies, or gay people - well - those groups are the ones we are now decended from.
An interesting read.