Has The "Gay Gene" Been Found Female Mice? | Popular Science

Contents:

• NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
• HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE

Here's how Amerins have tracked over recent s rponse to "In your view, is beg gay or lbian somethg a person is born wh, or due to factors such as upbrgg and environment? In the late 1990s, nversatn around a "gay gene" was very ntroversial. Among the endangered mice, homosexualy was observed and, at the same time, nnibalism creased, spe the fact that there was plenty of food.

"Gay" seems like the wrong word here.

" If the mice were gay, they wouldn't have ntued to try to have sex wh femal, right? It's also probably a mistake to speculate that there's a lk humans between seroton levels and homosexualy, as Gawker's Seth Abramovch do.

HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?

"Then you might be gay! "Really, 's a bad ia to e terms like "gay" and "straight" when talkg about mice at all. "This, and the wispread nature of homosexual behavur animals, supports the ia that sexual preference is more of a ntuum.

)Yong go on to quote the Columbia profsor Milton Waberg: As Waberg says, the assumptn that there’s a clear le between heterosexual and homosexual behavur “is out of step wh the field of sexualy rearch.

Prev rearch has found that if a populatn were allowed to exceed a fortable nsy level, then many tastrophic events occurred such as creased mortaly among the young, nnibalism, homosexualy, and lack of maternal functns. There were six behavr variabl noted as the experiment proceed: (1) groomg, (2) homosexualy, (3) nt buildg, (4) retrievg of young, (5) fightg, and (6) mortaly of the young.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

It was predicted that groomg, nt buildg, and retrievg of the young would crease equency as the populatn creased, while fightg, homosexualy and mortaly of the young would crease wh the risg populatn nsy. Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).