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
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 homosexualy appears to be hered, how have gay men, who are ls likely to reproduce, ntued to pass on their gen whout beg extct? Acrdg to The Gazette of Montreal, one long-nng theory argu that gay men serve the evolutnary role of actg as "super uncl" who assist close relativ and directly crease the chanc of passg on their gen.
"The ia is that homosexuals are helpg their close relativ reproduce more succsfully and at a higher rate by beg helpful: babystg more, tutorg their niec and nephews art and mic, and helpg out fancially wh thgs like medil re and tn, " reports The Gazette. Maybe everyone uld e a gay uncle. 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.
THE ‘GAY SUPER UNCLE THEORY’ AND THE EVOLUTNARY BENEF OF GAY MEN
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. Basilly, why haven't gay people gone extct? " 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. "Addnally, there is ls discrimatn agast fa'afafe, pared wh the still-wispread homophobia that exists many Wtern societi.