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| Topic | I think homophobia is as natural as homosexuality |
| adjl 02/10/18 10:37:36 AM #14: | Foppe posted... Homosexuality is natures way to prevent overpopulation. Evolution doesn't really care about overpopulation. The more plausible explanation I've heard for homosexuality is that, in a society (most of whom will be related to some extent or another, so kin selection will be at work), it's highly beneficial to have a small number of individuals without children to help raise other children. You see the same thing more broadly with other altruistic traits in other species: altruistic individuals are themselves less fit than selfish ones, evolutionary speaking, but overall populations tend to be fittest with somewhere in the range of 10-20% of their individuals being altruistic. Basically, from an evolutionary standpoint, gay people exist so your gay uncle is free to babysit you because he doesn't have his own kids. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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