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It seems more likely for it to be an emergent property of children serving as hunter/gatherer resources but not competing for procreation. It is either a novel
by wyldfire 6y ago
It seems more likely for it to be an emergent property of children serving as hunter/gatherer resources but not competing for procreation. It is either a novel mutation or something that is selected for.
- Zardoz84 6y ago> It is either a novel mutation or something that is selected for. You know that homosexuality it's very know to happen on many animal species ? It's not a "novel mutation"
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoThe mutation may not be, but perhaps the selection for it is. Few species hunt and gather.
- Robotbeat 6y agoEvolutionary psychology is always such a stretch, but I had never considered that possibility before. If there are a lot of extra males, if all were heterosexual there could be destructive competition over female mates. So asexual/homosexual/etc may become selected for if a disproportionate number of males were in a community (still community resources as you say but not destructively competing for mates).