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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
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Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
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Date: 9 Aug 90 20:20:06 GMT
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In article <766@infohh.rmi.de> diercks@infohh.rmi.de (Peter Diercks) writes:
>Kaplan claims to have found out that homosexuality in both sexes is
>caused by a certain hormonal disorder in the mother's organism during
>certain periods of pregnancy. The main reasons for this hormonal disorder
>(i.e. mainly lack or excess of testosterone) seem to be stress (!!) and
>naturally induced oscillation of hormone levels over the year.

This meshes well with some research I read about years ago, which stated
that the levels of homosexuality in rats when up as their crowding 
increased. 

Joshua Levy (joshua@atherton.com)