Male Homosexuality Can Be Explained Through A Specific Model Of Darwinian Evolution, Study Shows
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
An Italian research team found that the evolutionary origin and maintenance of male homosexuality in human populations could be explained by a model based around the idea of sexually antagonistic selection, in which genetic factors spread in the population by giving a reproductive advantage to one sex while disadvantaging the other.
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