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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> 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.

Is that, too, related to the sort of society the animal lives in? (e.g.
the more complex/organised the society, the more (open) the
homosexuality, till you hit humanity)

> 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 :))) .

Indeed :)

> And look at the
> Bonobos, the species closest to humans, where bisexuality is the
> normal and
> homosexuality as common as pure heterosexuality.

The advantages of not having intelligence :) (i.e. people who think and
come to the conclusion that homosexuality should be whiped out).

> If all those behaviours
> were wrong from an evolutionary perspective, how come they didn't
> disappear?

I hope I don't look like a biologist to you :)

>>  Being straight has
>> the obvious advantage that it's likely to encourage you to have
>> children,[1] but I'm not sure what, if any, advantage being gay has.
>> From that perspective, wouldn't being gay be a 'mistake', even if it's
>> not one that necessarily needs to be irradicated?
>
>
> You should check "Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural
> Diversity"

Sounds interesting :( <-- I think I'm going to have to defer[1] next
year to read all the something interestings, do all the something
interestings, and go to all the somewhere interestings...

[1]: take a year off study (at a uni) having a place held for you for
the next year so that you can continue it then.

--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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