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Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:20:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Cynthia Bradham wrote:
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Maybe a gene that sorts with gay people is a result and not a cause of
gayness.
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Cynthia, can you hypothesize a mechanism by which this might be true? I would
have thought that gene replication happens before anything else that might
potentially cause gayness.
Chris
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hi Chris, well, strictly speaking, I meant a gene expressed in gay people as opposed to straight people, or expressed more or less highly between the 2 different groups. Any number of mechanisms could account for such an occurance (probably (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I'd like to chime in as a biologist here: there are some situations in which sexual energy is better spent without a procreative effect. For example, if a group has limited resources. Sexual interactions among animals are not always strictly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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