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CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE GAY?
But forays to animal homosexualy rearch long predate Levick, wh observatns published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s. More than 200 years later, rearch has moved past some of the taboos those early rearchers faced and shown that homosexualy is much more mon than prevly thought. Rearchers are now gog beyond jt observg though, wh rearchers at Imperial leadg the way unravellg how, and why, homosexualy is found across nature.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
In the past, homosexual behavur was often ignored bee supposedly ntradicted Darw's theory of evolutn. Scientists argued homosexualy was a sort of 'Darwian paradox' bee volved sexual behavur that was non-reproductive. In 2016, Savolaen started some work on animal homosexualy, begng wh a chapter on the Evolutn of Homosexualy.
This suggts that homosexual activy is not a recent human nstct, cultural or even evolutnary terms, but stead occurs along many branch on the tree of life. Female homosexualy has been well studied Japane maqu, but Clive's rearch would exame how homosexual behavur differs mal and across environments. Rerdg homosexual behavur the wild and llectg blood sampl are the first steps for Clive; the next is sequencg DNA to search for nnectns between the behavur and geic markers.