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	<title>Comments on: Repression/Propagation: How Gay Genes Might be Passed</title>
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	<description>Things either exist or they don't</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Chip Gibbons</title>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2003/12/03/241/repressionpropagation-how-gay-genes-might-be-passed/#comment-1011</link>
		<dc:creator>Chip Gibbons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like your idea, too.

If you have guns and the law pointed at you and/or great social pressure to marry and reproduce, then there is little need for a natural, biological attraction between the opposite sexes.

You won't have a population of heterosexuals, you'll have a population prone to being submissive and dishonest (in cases where a person's biology conflicts with what is socially acceptable).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like your idea, too.</p>
<p>If you have guns and the law pointed at you and/or great social pressure to marry and reproduce, then there is little need for a natural, biological attraction between the opposite sexes.</p>
<p>You won&#8217;t have a population of heterosexuals, you&#8217;ll have a population prone to being submissive and dishonest (in cases where a person&#8217;s biology conflicts with what is socially acceptable).</p>
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		<title>By: PurpleKoolaid</title>
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		<dc:creator>PurpleKoolaid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, someone else caught onto the same idea that I had -- that is, social pressure to reproduce would have the effect of propagating genetic traits that might otherwise be weeded out of the gene pool.  ...This theory might work presuming homosexuality does indeed have a genetic basis (the jury might be out on that one).  

Another idea along similar lines would be the notion that strong attraction to the opposite sex is what is genetically governed.  But, like a wild animal population with traits that atrophy if not needed (e.g. the dodo, which lost its "fear instinct" and ability to fly, due to lack of predators), if another factor (e.g. social pressure) supercedes "strong attraction to the opposite sex" in terms of a reproductive strategy, then that trait might eventually atrophy and become less pronounced over the course of generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, someone else caught onto the same idea that I had &#8212; that is, social pressure to reproduce would have the effect of propagating genetic traits that might otherwise be weeded out of the gene pool.  &#8230;This theory might work presuming homosexuality does indeed have a genetic basis (the jury might be out on that one).  </p>
<p>Another idea along similar lines would be the notion that strong attraction to the opposite sex is what is genetically governed.  But, like a wild animal population with traits that atrophy if not needed (e.g. the dodo, which lost its &#8220;fear instinct&#8221; and ability to fly, due to lack of predators), if another factor (e.g. social pressure) supercedes &#8220;strong attraction to the opposite sex&#8221; in terms of a reproductive strategy, then that trait might eventually atrophy and become less pronounced over the course of generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is a very intersting theory
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