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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (696343)8/11/2005 4:49:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
"something is defective with the reproductive instinct."

Perhaps not at all.

Women carrying such a genetic inheritance (it does appear to be linked to the X chromosome, and recessive at that) seem to be MORE FERTILE then average.

So, they could have MORE CHILDREN then the average (clearly an evolutionary survival benefit) even if hetrosexuality is dominant in all their offspring:

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Some rough examples I can think of are the genetic mutations in certain African populations that impart resistent to Malaria (but who's side effects kill the same people past the age of 30....)

Or genetic mutations in Northern Europe (fair skin, red or blond hair, etc.) that enable survival in climes with low sunlight --- by letting more sunlight though the skin to produce Vitamin D. Without the vitamin people die. In olden days (before vitamin suppliments :) a darker-skined people would have sickened and died if they tried to live in northerly latitudes.

From the point-of-view of evolution (focused on 'the selfish gene', i.e., passing your genetic inheritance on), it only matters if you live long enough to reproduce, and raise your offspring until they can make it on their own....
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