Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rmi!infoac!infohh!diercks From: diercks@infohh.rmi.de (Peter Diercks) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool Message-ID: <776@infohh.rmi.de> Date: 18 Aug 90 16:54:40 GMT References: <1990Jul23.022511.28161@mtcchi.uucp> <11095@netcom.UUCP> <10615@cs.utexas.edu> <1990Jul29.050038.24791@wolves.uucp> <32214@cup.portal.com> <766@infohh.rmi.de> <28537@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> <82919@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: diercks@infohh.rmi.de (Peter Diercks) Organization: RMI Net * Aachen/Hamburg/Flensburg * W.Germany Lines: 9 In article 430 of this newsgroup Kathryn M.Rees criticizes me for having chosen the expression hormonal "disorder", as this word implies abnormality or dysfunction. I did certainly not mean to offend or discriminate homosexuals or their mothers! The word "variation" would have been much better. My English is not that of a native speaker. So I have to apologize for this misunderstanding. Peter Diercks