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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.134241.20058@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 27 Jul 90 13:42:41 GMT
References: <4aen4XO00h5KN_0l8P@cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <4aen4XO00h5KN_0l8P@cs.cmu.edu> Christian.Molick@CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>
>First, assuming that homosexuality is heriditarly determined, it might
>still be a recessive gene, and therefore non-homosexuals could breed
>homosexual kin.

First you'd have to demonstrate that homosexuality is a separate biological
phenomenon from heterosexuality.

Any concepts or categories that we humans think in is suspect and should
be regarded as a culturally-based category until shown otherwise.  An
example might make my point clear.

Not too long ago it might have been considered a separate "type" of
sexuality to be attracted to members of a different race.  But it would
be falacious to try to explain this behavior genetically before showing
that this category of behavior was a biological category of behavior.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
"If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle." Rita Mae Brown
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US
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