August 22, 2008
hyper-heterosexuals
Italian researchers have suggested a link between genes that make women more interested in men, and thus more reproductively successful, and the homosexuality or bisexuality of their offspring.
Andrea Camperio Ciani and colleagues at the University of Padua, Italy, showed that the female relatives of homosexual men tend to have more children, suggesting that genes on the X chromosome are responsible. Now the team have shown that the same is true for bisexuality.
“It helps to answer a perplexing question - how can there be ‘gay genes’ given that gay sex doesn’t lead to procreation?” says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. “The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children.”
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My mom’s straighter than your mom.