If organism A is homosexual, and it belongs to a group of animals...
Due to the caring nature of Organism A (somehow enhanced because the animal is homosexual?)
other organisms in the closed group will be more likely to survive, therefore there will be a higher chance that
a homosexual animal will recur in that closed group, therefore having a few Homosexuals may provide an evolutionary
advantage to groups of animals?
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:00 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: They're in love. They're gay. They're penguins... And they're not alone.
For one thing you're allowing your biases to overrule the data.
Consider this possibility. Evolution is the change of alleles over
time. While acting on individuals, its real impact is on groups. For
instance, a gay person in a small family group via his or her own
cooperation with the group ensures that their siblings pass on their
genes, including a proclivity for homosexuality. Since more effort is
being devoted to ensuring the survival and reproduction of the
siblings' offspring (through the support of gay members of the family
grouping), then that gene will more likely to manifest itself in the
future. Hence there may be an evolutionary advantage to homosexuality.
larry
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