A new study by Canadian rearchers adds weight to the theory that the evolutnary role of gay men may be to serve as "super uncl" who help close fay members survive. Pl Vasey, an evolutnary psychologist at the Universy of Lethbridge, sought to addrs an entrenched scientific riddle: If...
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- HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN
- 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
- THE ‘GAY SUPER UNCLE THEORY’ AND THE EVOLUTNARY BENEF OF GAY MEN
- THE FRIENDLY GAY UNCLE THEORY
- QUTN: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE "GAY UNCLE HYPOTHIS" AS AN EVOLUTNARY EXPLANATN FOR HOMOSEXUALY? PLEASE EXPLA WHY OR WHY NOT YOU THK THIS SOUNDS LIKE A REASONABLE EXPLANATN.
- GAYS MAKE GREAT UNCL: MAYBE THAT’S WHY THEY’RE STILL AMONG
HOW GAY UNCL PASS DOWN GEN
* gay uncle hypothesis *
A new study found that homosexual men may be predisposed to nurture their niec and nephews as a way of helpg to ensure their own gen get passed down to the next generatn. Rearch has nfirmed that male homosexualy is at least partly heredary – tends to clter fai, and intil tw brothers of gay men are more likely to be gay than aternal tw brothers, who do not share intil scientists have been puzzled about how the gen are perpetuated, sce homosexual mal are ls likely to reproduce than straight mal. " Perhaps gay men are blogilly predisposed to help raise the offsprg of their siblgs and other relativ.
"K therefore pass on more of the gen which they would share wh their homosexual relativ. Only the latter would help expla how homosexual gen are passed down through generatns.
"If fa'afafe have really been selected to be avuncular and this is an adaptatn, then they would not be redirectg rourc to non-k children, " Vasey rearchers published their fdgs a Febary issue of the journal Psychologil k selectn hypothis was first proposed the 1970s, but prev efforts to tt among gay male populatns Wtern societi found no effect. A study Chigo and another England found no difference between gay men and straight people altistic behavr toward fay members.
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
"Addnally, there is ls discrimatn agast fa'afafe, pared wh the still-wispread homophobia that exists many Wtern societi. Even if many Wtern gay men wanted to be dotg uncl, their fai might not always enurage said the next step is to tt whether this trend exists other non-Wtern cultur where mal wh same-sex attractns are also accepted as a unique also said that he don't thk the k selectn hypothis entirely acunts for the endurance of gay gen, but that likely plays a role batn wh other blogil 10 Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the WildSex Quiz: Myths, Taboos and Bizarre FactsMom's Geics Could Produce Gay Sons. The so-lled "gay uncle" hypothis poss that people who themselv do not have children may nohels crease the prevalence of their fay's gen future generatns by providg rourc (food, supervisn, fense, shelter, etc.
THE ‘GAY SUPER UNCLE THEORY’ AND THE EVOLUTNARY BENEF OF GAY MEN
Let's jt say that the hypothis that gays do provi extra rourc for their nephews and niec is te (I'm not sayg is, but jt pretend is).
Sce people are 50% related to their children and 25% related to their nephews/niec, do this mean that to keep up wh heterosexuals, gays on average would need to provi protectn for twice the average number of children of heterosexual upl? Straight upl providg protectn for two children (50%, 50%) is equivalent to a gay uncle providg protectn for four children (25%, 25%, 25%, 25%).
But that's jt to keep up wh heteros, so for the gay gen to actually spread (rather than jt exist), they'd need to provi for more than twice the average for heteros? And if pengus n be homosexual, what was to say that that behavur, far om beg the perversn society prumed was, was natural humans too?
THE FRIENDLY GAY UNCLE THEORY
The days homosexuals, avian or otherwise, generally have an easier time of . Studi show, for stance, that intil tws are more likely to be both homosexual than non-intil tws. Male homosexualy, a tra that, at least among exclive homosexuals, means people have no tert at all the act of reproductn, should never have existed the first place.
To answer that qutn, rearchers have gone to a place where homosexualy self do not exist, at least the form we know : Samoa. Pl Vasey, om the Universy of Lethbridge Canada, believ that homosexualy as manifts self most of today’s world is unual.
QUTN: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE "GAY UNCLE HYPOTHIS" AS AN EVOLUTNARY EXPLANATN FOR HOMOSEXUALY? PLEASE EXPLA WHY OR WHY NOT YOU THK THIS SOUNDS LIKE A REASONABLE EXPLANATN.
In more ancient cultur, he thks you n see homosexualy as was practised by our anctors ep time – as a “third genr”.
GAYS MAKE GREAT UNCL: MAYBE THAT’S WHY THEY’RE STILL AMONG
And lookg at the third genrs – particular the Fa’afafe – he believ we n fd clu as to why this evolutnary paradox of male homosexualy persists.
What is tertg for Profsor Vasey is that, firstly, there is no regnised gay inty Samoa and that, sendly, the Fa’afafe occur at the same proportn as male homosexuals the wt. The fact they also go on to sleep wh men is not the only siary between Fa’afafe and wtern gay men. For Profsor Vasey, seems obv that beg Fa’afafe and beg gay is the “same tra, exprsed differently pendg on the culture.