Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 15:33 |
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From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly
Mug," etc.
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> > It sounds like a plausible hypothesis (I would tend to agree), but I
> > don't
> > know what the data says about it.
>
>
> Come to think about it, I think I might have seen something somewhere
> suggesting that for advanced societies, having homosexual creatures can
> be advantage: they won't be able to have offspring so rather than
> spending time making sure their children aren't dying, they're spending
> time hunting food/learning etc.
This is a possibility, however, the 'gay genes' would naturally die out. It
may be an advantage for the tribe to have a homosexual, but this is not an
evolutionary advasntage, becuase the homosexual ape, or whatever, will not
pass on any of his genes.
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