Study finds female relatives of gay men make more babies
”I think this is an example where the results of scientific research can have important social implications…. You have all this antagonism against homosexuality because they say it’s against nature because it doesn’t lead to reproduction. We found out this is not true because homosexuality is just one of the consequences of strategies for making females more fecund…. We’re still working on lesbianism, but were not getting to the same result, and possibly we’ll come out with a completely different explanation.”
Andrea Camperio-Ciani, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Padova, who studied 200 Italian families and found that two genes that work in a ”sexually antagonistic” way increases fecundity in women and decreases fecundity in men. (Live Science)
