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From: jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
Keywords: mutation
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Date: 28 Jul 90 06:26:42 GMT
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In article <1990Jul27.180834.6875@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA 
(Patrick Hertel) writes:
>In article <1990Jul27.133700.19908@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> 
rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>>Has any one either conclusively shown or disconfirmed a link between
>>heredity and sexual desire for members of the opposite sex, in humans?
>
> Seeing as how there would be no heredity to speak of WITHOUT the aforementioned
>desire, I would think this rather, ahem, conclusive.

You're confusing two different desires, that to have children and that to
have sex with someone of the other sex.  Many gay men and lesbians have
children, and many straight couples do not.  
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Jack Hamilton                                         
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