I believe you deliberately are pretending to not understand my post. Note that I said the genetic influences upon BEHAVIOR are likely to be the resultant of the interaction of *multiple genes* (genetic sequences, etc.) and only rarely the result of single genes:
Science seems to believe that a number of factors can potentially affect sexual orientation throughout the entire animal kingdom:
The 'nature' factors:
1)pure genetic determination (some say this may be perhaps 50% of the puzzle).
2) hormonal influences in-utero and in early developmental years (also influenced by 'estrogenic compounds' in the environment, i.e., pollutants commonly found in plastics, consumer goods, health and beauty products, in our water supplies, etc., that MIMIC the effects of estrogen in the human body.
And 'nurture' factors:
3) Societal influences.
(PS --- you NEVER ANSWERED how *you* explain homosexuality throughout the animal kingdom, and throughout recorded history? Are their little 'gay clubs' in the animal kingdom where they sit around having tea parties and discussing fashion? LOL!)
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Homosexuality is biological, suggests gay sheep study
* 10:51 05 November 2002
* NewScientist.com news service
* Helen Phillips, Orlando
newscientist.com
Survival of genetic homosexual traits explained
* 00:01 13 October 2004
* NewScientist.com news service
* Andy Coghlan
Italian geneticists may have explained how genes apparently linked to male homosexuality survive, despite gay men seldom having children. Their findings also undermine the theory of a single “gay gene”.
The researchers discovered that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same - as yet unidentified - genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men. This fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men, and keeps the “gay” genetic factors in circulation.
The findings represent the best explanation yet for the Darwinian paradox presented by homosexuality: it is a genetic dead-end, yet the trait persists generation after generation.
“We have finally solved this paradox,” says Andrea Camperio-Ciani of the University of Padua. “The same factor that influences sexual orientation in males promotes higher fecundity in females.”...
newscientist.com
Gay genetics
* 16 October 2004
* NewScientist.com news service
newscientist.com
Editorial: The complexity of sex
* 16 October 2004
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* Magazine issue 2469
How can a "gay gene" be passed down the generations?
BACK in 1993, when Dean Hamer discovered what appeared to be a gene that predisposed men to homosexuality, he created a paradox. According to Darwinian thinking, if homosexual men have fewer children than straight men the "gay gene" should quickly disappear from the population. Yet we know that homosexuality persists....
newscientist.com
Evidence for homosexuality gene
(189 citations)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Gay Gene (moderated)
members.aol.com
Genes and personality
gender.org.uk
The Gene Debate
Homosexuality is firmly rooted in genes and biology. We don't understand it completely. We don't know the exact location of all the genes involved. But we do know, from endless lab tests with fruit flies and mice and other animals that sexuality is biologically determined, the result of a certain mix of genes, chemicals and hormones. To be more accurate, sexuality whether gay or straight is the result of a certain mix of genes, chemicals and hormones. This ìmixî may be different for the homosexual, resulting in a sexuality than varies from the norm.
It is now generally understood that a personís sexuality is already firmly in place by the time he or she enters kindergarten, perhaps even before the child leaves the womb of it's mother....
well.com
Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture
AllPsych Journal
Ryan D. Johnson
April 30, 2003
allpsych.com
SCIENCE chat bbs > homosexuality and evolution
perspectives.com
THE GENETICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Dara Newman
serendip.brynmawr.edu
Are There Advantages to Being Homosexual?
Lorne Warneke, M.D.
times10.org
Definitive Limitations
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