> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:59 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Being Gay: Nature or Nurture? > > > Jim wrote: > > Homosexuality could be essentially natural but also be an evolutionary > > dead-end. > > The 60 minutes link that I posted gave this interesting fact: the more > older brothers a boy has, the higher the probability he has of being > Gay. > > So, evolution may have found a way of controlling the population - and > it may be in all mammals.
I just don't see how that could be evolutionarily based: how could any genetic marker be triggered by the number of siblings? I could definitely see a psychological cause... perhaps even a physiological predilection to the psychological cause. But that seems like a stretch. I mean how would something like that evolve? How would, at the genetic level, distinction be made for older brothers vrs other older male members of the community? What about multiple siblings from different parents (half-brothers)? It may be simply drawing back to the (no pun intended) "too many cocks in the henhouse" hypothesis. Distinguishing between siblings and others just seems too fine a trick to me... then again the fun thing about science is how it can surprise you. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199997 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
