Saturday, January 13, 2007

"How could a 'homosexuality gene' survive natural selection?"

via digg
A new study asks an interesting genetics question: if there was a gene that controlled homosexuality—and hence limited reproduction—how could it be favored to exist? If there is a gene that causes one to not reproduce, natural selection would dictate that it cannot survive long in a population, since it is not being passed on to future generations."

1 comment:

Natalie said...

Good point. But, mules continue to exist and they don't have reproductive abilities.