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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. 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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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. In 1896, French entomologist Henri Ga Kerville published one of the first scientific illtratns of animal homosexualy. This ia stemmed om a study showg a rrelatn between geic marker Xq28 and male homosexualy, although there were statistil uncertati about some of the fdgs.
Then they n see what this should look like the real blogil and heredary factors of homosexualy are most certaly not tied to a sgle gene. To create mols of homosexualy, Savolaen reced Ewan Fltham as a PhD stunt evolutnary blogy at Imperial. Meanwhile, others pos that homosexualy uld also play a role evolutn through -parentg or helpg to raise relativ' offsprg.
The explanatns are not exclive of one another, and is likely that a batn of factors are important for the evolutn of homosexualy.