Could the increase in homosexuality be due to the world's overpopulation? Nature's way of decreasing reproduction?
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What increase?
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Yes. Scientists have found a lot of evidence that lead to that belief. Other animals have the same thing happen when their environment becomes too crowded.
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No, natural selection does not apply to humans very much, as we use technology to offset nature. If humans were bound to the laws of nature we would be extinct as our naked bodies would have not survived the ice age.
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While yes, I believe it definately could be, I do want to make a point about 'increase in homosexuality' or awareness of it. In current history homosexuality has become more accepted in many places where it was condemned for hundreds of years. But in those same places homosexuality often flourished. Many cultures, both modern and ancient, have accepted homosexuality. The difference is that now it's moving towards a general acceptance, instead of being culturally restricted to a certain aspect of society. So I don't think that there's necesarrily more homosexuality, but that's it's moving out of the spheres it was restricted to. But as for your original question, yes, I think that homosexual orientations and behavior could benefit a species that's suffering from overpopulation.
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Is there an actual increase in homosexuality? I think not. I would be willing to bet (even though there is no way to prove it either way) that the percentages are the same now as they were at any other time.. The only difference is, in recent years, society has become more accepting of homosexuality, therefore more and more people are willing to 'come out'. It only seems like it is more prevalent. But to answer your question, no. I don't see how that would affect the population. Just because a woman is a lesbian, does not mean she cannot get pregnant. If Mother Nature was wanting to affect our reproductive rate, she would create more barren women.
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I don't think so. Mother nature reserves pestilence and famine for such things.
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Regardless of whether there is a measurable increase in the rates of homosexuality. There is mounting evidence that humans have introduced a wide range of chemicals into the environment that mimic estrogen in an animals body. The effect can be disturbing because even very low concentrations can alter the development of males and females. The first observations were related to chemical leakages and resultant wildlife deformities. Male birds were developing female traits and behaviors. More recently, these estrogenic effects has been observed in lab studies with pesticides, plastics, etc. Reduced sperm production/viability is often one side effect which I suppose should lower human densities over time theoretically.
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Yes it could. There are many unmeasurable ways that nature works. The real question is what makes one homosexual. is it all based on hormones in the mother while carrying the baby that is born gay or is there other reasons for the person to choose to be gay. Maybe both. hormones work in strange ways.
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It's possible, anything is possible.
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