Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly
Mug," etc.


> En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>
>
> >Pardon me for being this way, but is their any advantage to being gay
> >over being straight from an evolutionary perspective?
>
> Probably not, but it doesn't mean that they aren't both *equally*
> advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. If not, how can you explain
> that *all* sexed species which have been studied have been shown to
include
> homosexual behaviours considered perfectly normal by the animal community?
> (for animals living in society) And homosexuality seems even more common
> the more complex the behaviours of the species are. Homosexual behaviours
> seem so common that the very first time scientists managed to catch two
> octopusses mating in nature (this hadn't been seen before), it soon
> appeared that they were looking at a homosexual mating ;))) . Of course,
> this is just a coincidence, but quite a funny one :))) . And look at the
> Bonobos, the species closest to humans, where bisexuality is the normal
and
> homosexuality as common as pure heterosexuality. If all those behaviours
> were wrong from an evolutionary perspective, how come they didn't
disappear?
>
Bonobos are naturally bisexual, and there are probably no homosexuals or
heterosexuals.  Homosexuality(that is, pure homosexuality) can be nothing
but an evolutionary disadvantage, as the sole point of evolution is
reproduction, which homosexuals, well, cannot.  I don't mean to be
derogatory in any way, but I can just see no advantage.

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