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[sciatrix]

"how has homosexual orientation evolved, given that, on average, homosexual individuals produce fewer children than do heterosexual individuals (this relative fitness relation between homosexuals and heterosexuals is considered an assumption for the purposes of this paper, given that the empirical evidence in the literature from Alfred Kinsey and others is weak)"

sir

do you hear yourself

do you hear yourself

I am not entirely sure if I can review this literature sober. The first thing I tackled was a piece purporting to be a review about proposed mechanisms for the evolution of female homosexuality; it spent three or four paragraphs explaining the possibility that bisexuality in women evolved for the purpose of attracting and interesting heterosexual men.

I cannot even.

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[sciatrix]

The ironic thing is that I'm genuinely unsure which of several papers in my Zotero this was, back in September. I think it's probably J. Kirby, “A New Group-Selection Model for the Evolution of Homosexuality,” which was written in 2003.

It is very problematic, let us say, from a variety of both evolutionary and anthropological perspectives.

[wanderingnork]

"lack of dependency on an inefficient altruism relation"

...wow. Just. Wow. This isn't even my field of study and I legitimately want to scream *from reading the abstract*. I am so sorry you had to suffer through this.