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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (342024)	1/12/2003 9:59:06 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That doesn't really explain why the trait would stay with "us", does it? No. But this does. Psychologist: Gays help perpetuate race - Psychologist Frank Muscarella, an associate professor at Barry University, has come to a conclusion that at first seems to be a contradiction: Homosexuality helps perpetuate the human race and other species. ''The theory holds that homosexual individuals in early human societies may have helped close family members, either directly or indirectly, to reproduce more successfully,'' Muscarella, 41, writes in a study to be published by the Journal of Homosexuality. ''Thus, genes for homosexuality would have been passed on indirectly through relatives.'' Muscarella, who also wrote a recently published professional study called The Homoerotic Behavior That Never Evolved, acknowledges his theory ''flies in the face of all contemporary thinking,'' but gives several examples in humans and baboons. In early times, young men and women would leave home and form alliances with others. These bonds often were with people of the same gender and would include sexual relations. Through these alliances, they would protect each other from enemies and help each other survive through adulthood, Muscarella said. ''The individuals survived long enough to ultimately reproduce,'' Muscarella said. (...) Muscarella's theory is based upon the ''emerging field of evolutionary psychology,'' which, he writes, ''examines human behavior in terms of its adaptive value -- that is, its ability to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to survival and reproduction.'' He says his theory ''lends itself perfectly to an evolutionary analysis.''