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

Tim May scripsit:

> I think this is inaccurate.  Natural selection doesn't operate on the
> level of the species, or the individual, but the gene.
This is to say the least controversial: Darwin wrote about individual
selection, and even group selection is far from dead, though the
claims made for extreme forms of it have been discredited.

> However, I can see a number of ways in which a non-dominant gay gene
> could be adaptive:
[good list snipped]

What seems most likely to me is that sexual behavior exists on a
continuum (it's no accident that Alfred Kinsey was a wasp taxonomist)
and that all of it is essentially epiphenomenal.

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Be yourself.  Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
no such knowledge exists.  Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
James Clark is as perennial as the grass.  --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath

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