and if you want to sit at your desk and giggle, read this again, but imagine Cartman from South park reciting it.
Judah McAuley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Michael Grant [Modus I.S.] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's certainly not genetically defective. In fact homosexuality appears in >> many species, not just humans. However mother nature (for lack of a better >> term) has just made it so that it can't be (naturally) genetically passed >> on. It's the exception to the rule. >> > > This isn't actually true. I'll point you at my other evolutionary rant > for a broader overview but here's an example. > > Lets say that a single gene governs homosexuality. While obviously not > true, lets take that as an argument. > > Hypothesize that homosexuality is recessive. If you have two copies of > the allele (component that makes up a gene) you are gay, if you don't > have any copies you are straight and if you have one copy you are > bisexual. > > Now if you have two copies of this allele you are totally gay and are > never going to have offspring in the classic fashion. You won't even > get drunk and screw someone just to see how it is and have an accident > :) > > But let us say that the homosexual allele is linked to another trait, > say efficient metabolism. People with an efficient metabolism could > get by with less food and that is an evolutionary advantage when food > supplies are tight. > > In this scenario, bisexual folks (one copy of the gay allele) are > likely to have more efficient metabolisms than straight people. Not as > good maybe as gay people, but better than straight folks. So even if > there was a strong evolutionary penalty for being gay (having 2 > copies), the allele would likely stick around in the bisexual folks > because the bisexual folks have better metabolisms than straight > people. And for every two bisexual people that breed, their offspring > has a 25% chance of being gay and a 50% chance of being bi. And for a > bi person and a straight person, the offspring have a 25% chance of > being bi (still having one copy of that gene). > > And that's only one example of how "mother nature" can pass along > genes that you'd guess might be evolutionarily maladaptive. > > In short, biology and evolution don't work the way you think they > do...and bisexual people still have the best of all worlds :) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280773 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
