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ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY

Many speci of sects and spirs engage homosexual behavr, like urtg, mountg, and tryg to mate wh members of the same sex.

Oliver Mart of ETH Zurich have found that homosexual behavr bugs is probably accintal most s. In birds and mammals, homosexual behavr has been shown to have evolutnary benefs. In general there is no clear benef to homosexual behavr sects.

Homosexual matg is at least as risky as the heterosexual kd, expendg sperm, wastg time that uld go toward other activi, and boostg the risk of jury, disease, and predatn. They expect homosexual behavr to be siarly stly.

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And yet, some speci, up to 85 percent of mal engage homosexual behavr. Almost 80 percent of the s of homosexual behavr the rearchers appeared to be the rult of misintifitn or belated intifitn of genr. This explanatn is supported by the fact that many speci that exhib homosexual behavr also mate wh related speci or animate objects, like beer bottl—ditg a general tenncy toward misintifitn.

"Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor, " says Dr.

To nfirm their theory, the rearchers plan to study the ndns that make homosexual behavr more or ls likely bugs.

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They also want to look more eply to male ristance to homosexual matg. Rearch fds that homosexualy sects and spirs is a se of mistaken inty (2013, October 21).

Yet spe this, homosexualy sects – which rri all of the risks of sex whout the evolutnary benef of passg on gen – has been seen more than 100 speci. No real nsens has been reached on why sect homosexualy is so mon, wh different studi supportg or refutg particular ias even wh the same speci.

There are dozens of ias ed to expla homosexual behavur sects, which broadly fall to two tegori.

WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX

Eher they suggt sect homosexualy has evolved bee actually helps mal have more offsprg, or that is not an evolutnary adaptatn and stead occurs when mal simply don’t regnise potential mat. In the former tegory, scientists have suggted male homosexual activi may rce matg petn by distractg or jurg other mal, or tablishg social allianc wh them or domance over them. On the other hand, homosexual behavur sects may provi no evolutnary advantage and stead be due to nfn ed by environmental factors (as when u fli nsume alhol rottg u).