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To: longnshort who wrote (31634)	12/9/2012 11:19:28 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"...Important new evidence on a plausible mechanism for the evolution of "gay genes" has emerged from the work of Camperio-Ciani. [26] They found in two large, independent studies that the female relatives of homosexual men tended to have significantly more offspring than those of the heterosexual men. Female relatives of the homosexual men on their mother's side tended to have more offspring than those on the father's side. This indicates that females carrying a putative " androphilia genes" complex are more fecund than women lacking this complex of genes, and thereby can compensate for any decreased fertility of the males carrying the genes. This is a well known phenomenon in evolution known as "sexual antagonism,"[ citation needed] and has been widely documented for many traits that are advantageous in one sex but not in the other.[ citation needed] This provides solid experimental evidence of how "gay genes" could not only survive but thrive over the course of evolution..."