{"id":243,"date":"2008-06-26T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/26\/evolutionary-stability-of-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:54:18","slug":"evolutionary-stability-of-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/26\/evolutionary-stability-of-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary stability of homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been dissatisfied with the attempts I&#8217;ve seen to explain why evolution hasn&#8217;t made homosexuality rare.<br \/>\nA new paper in PLoS ONE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org:\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002282\">Sexually Antagonistic Selection in Human Male Homosexuality<\/a> presents a model that seems adequate.<br \/>\nThe main idea (from <a href=\"http:\/\/mwclarkson.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/determinants-and-evolutionary.html\">this summary<\/a>) is that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\na heightened sexual response to men could make women more likely to pass on their genes, while making men possessing the trait less likely to do so.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The paper notes this evidence to support it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nhomosexuals&#8217; mothers are more fecund than mothers of heterosexuals. Further female fecundity asymmetries include a higher fecundity of maternal vs. paternal aunts of homosexuals\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This model provides hints about why homosexuality is not rare among other species.<br \/>\nMy main reservation is that the model leads me to expect bisexuality to be somewhat more likely than homosexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been dissatisfied with the attempts I&#8217;ve seen to explain why evolution hasn&#8217;t made homosexuality rare. A new paper in PLoS ONE: Sexually Antagonistic Selection in Human Male Homosexuality presents a model that seems adequate. The main idea (from this summary) is that a heightened sexual response to men could make women more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}