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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
Keywords: mutation
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.131719.13076@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 20 Jul 90 13:17:19 GMT
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Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <5914@videovax.tv.tek.com> chrish@videovax.tv.tek.com (h) writes:
>I don't want to discuss the homosexuality issue but I really want to
>respond to the issue of mutation.  I am amazed at the contrast between
>the biological reality of how man got to be what he is genetically
>versus the level of tolerance in the personalities of man towards
>mutation.  An example of what I mean is how much fun is made of a
>fellow human especially by children of another who has some genetic
>mutation that makes them "look funny", while at the same time there
>is so little awareness of how what looks "normal" to most of us is
>the result of thousands upon thousands of biological mutations.  
>Without mutation we would not be here and noone would be typing at
>this keyboard.
>
>chris   

 I don't understand your surprise at this. If you look at it in a Darwinian 
sense, any mutation will have environmental pressures on it. These would
include social pressures. Only the "good" mutations, supposedly, will make it.
 Before I get flamed as bigot etc. I want to make it clear that I am not
passing any kind of judgement here.
-- 
Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         Environment Canada
phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca
    "Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. King