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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: gay genes
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 22:19:36 EDT
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The survival of an individual's genes via collateral relatives
is a well known concept in population genetics, and goes back
at least 50 years.  (R. A. Fisher, in the Genetical Theory of
Natural Selection has an extensive treatment.)  But I have to
make a small quibble - its the worker in the ants and bees
which is a sterile female, and so doesn't breed.  The drone is
a male, and does (or can) breed.
--henry