Of course men want to mate with every woman they can; they're driven to spread their genes as far and wide as possible to give them the best shot at genetic survival. But females are very particular and choosy as they are the ones that will be burdened with the brunt of the childcare, and she cannot produce anywhere near as many offspring as a male can. It therefore behooves a woman choose the very best specimen she can find, the strongest, handsomest man, to sire her offspring while keeping the dopier but perhaps better provider guy at home to help her care for them. But it's also genetically ingrained for him to only want to provide for his OWN biological offspring and thus ensure the passage of HIS genes, therefore it behooves the woman to also keep the real identity of her offsprings' father a secret from her provider mate if at all possible.
This continues to happen all. the. time. (cheating on both sides) despite our best efforts to live on a higher moral ground and act less like the animals we are because society tells us to fight this part of our nature. On the other hand, the only real benefit to developing these so-called "morals" of pair bonding is to know for sure whose offspring belongs to whom, and hence not-so-great-specimen-but-good-provider gets to pass on his genes as well, giving the genetic pool more variation. The question is, do we want to keep his genes or not? And it's a completely moot point regarding gay people since they can't reproduce naturally, anyway.
As a lifelong student of biology, I can tell you the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that the root of homosexuality is biological, an anomaly that crops up in all species across the world with heterosexual parents. It isn't detrimental, or at least not detrimental enough, to have been bred out of animal populations, and it can even be beneficial (e.g. gay penguins that adopt and raise an egg that has lost its biological parents). I suspect in humans either it has seemingly become more prevalent due to the crazy amount of hormones that get into our water and food supply, or just that people finally feel less terrified about coming out of the closet and aren't willing to live a straight lie any longer. In any case, I definitely think it's a good thing, since many gay people will never have biological children, because the human population is running rampant out of control toward a serious overpopulation disaster; the more non-breeders produced, the better!
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Date: 2010-08-06 12:01 am (UTC)This continues to happen all. the. time. (cheating on both sides) despite our best efforts to live on a higher moral ground and act less like the animals we are because society tells us to fight this part of our nature. On the other hand, the only real benefit to developing these so-called "morals" of pair bonding is to know for sure whose offspring belongs to whom, and hence not-so-great-specimen-but-good-provider gets to pass on his genes as well, giving the genetic pool more variation. The question is, do we want to keep his genes or not? And it's a completely moot point regarding gay people since they can't reproduce naturally, anyway.
As a lifelong student of biology, I can tell you the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that the root of homosexuality is biological, an anomaly that crops up in all species across the world with heterosexual parents. It isn't detrimental, or at least not detrimental enough, to have been bred out of animal populations, and it can even be beneficial (e.g. gay penguins that adopt and raise an egg that has lost its biological parents). I suspect in humans either it has seemingly become more prevalent due to the crazy amount of hormones that get into our water and food supply, or just that people finally feel less terrified about coming out of the closet and aren't willing to live a straight lie any longer. In any case, I definitely think it's a good thing, since many gay people will never have biological children, because the human population is running rampant out of control toward a serious overpopulation disaster; the more non-breeders produced, the better!