The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
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- GAY RIGHTS
- THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
GAY RIGHTS
In theory, humans and other animals who are exclively attracted to others of the same sex should be unlikely to produce many blogil children, so any gen that predispose people to homosexualy would rarely be passed on to future generatns. Yet same-sex attractn is wispread humans, and rearch suggts that is partly a study of data om hundreds of thoands of people, rearchers have now intified geic patterns that uld be associated wh homosexual behavur, and showed how the might also help people to fd different-sex mat, and reproduce. Most of the participants were born durg a time when homosexualy was eher illegal or culturally taboo their untri, so many people who were attracted to others of the same sex might never have actually acted on their attractn, and uld therefore have end up the wrong group the Monk, an elogist and evolutnary blogist at Yale Universy New Haven, Connecticut, thks that the veats are so important that the paper n’t draw any real nclns about geics and sexual orientatn.
THE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALYBEG GAY NO LONGER HOLDS THE STIGMA ONCE DID, BUT EVOLUTN, WHY DO A NON-REPRODUCTIVE TRA PERSIST?TOM WHIPPLEPUBLISHED: MAY 8, 2018 AT 11:00 PMTHE EVOLUTNARY PARADOX OF HOMOSEXUALY
Instead, he thks the rearchers have found geic markers associated wh openns to new experienc, which uld expla the overlap between people who have had a homosexual partner and heterosexual people who have had many partners. KeywordsGay braGay geneGenr intyHomosexualyPrimatTransgenrCed by (0)∗Bee of s subject matter, the edors utn that some rears might fd the language to be strong and the material to be full textCopyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. Here we discs a body of scientific evince that directly ntradicts this assertn and stead argu that homosexualy has emerged through evolutn as a normal variant that nfers survival benefs to the fay, particularly certa settgs.
In the largt and most rigoro geic lkage study foced on this topic, Sanrs and lleagu sctized the DNA om 409 pairs of gay brothers, searchg for shared sgle nucleoti polymorphisms (SNPs)—substutns of a sgle letter the geic (Sanrs, 2015). Androphilia—strong sexual attractn to mal—has been proposed as a geilly termed tra that when hered by a woman creas the number of children she will bear, but when hered by a male will predispose to homosexualy.