Charlie Bell wrote: > >> Many animal species have a disequilibrium. > > Such as? > >> One way is by polygamy. > > In mammals, that just leads to lots of unmated males, with fierce > competition. The overall ratio, if you're talking lions or deer or > something, is 50-50, > The end result is disequilibrium.
>> Homosexuality is either genetic, cultural or a mix of both. In >> either case, a lesbian mother in a lesbian society will eventually >> have an influence in making the daughter lesbian too. > > But those who fail will have more offspring, driving the ratio back > to parity. > Except that those offspring may not be as successful as those that come from the lesbians, because they weren't as carefully selected as those. >>> Even if it does become a common procedure, the selective balance >>> prevails. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium models can be used to show how >>> this happens. >> >> So please enlighten me about this. I am still waiting for the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium models! >> Intuition shows that genetic >> manipulation and selection will converge to a mix of Glory Season >> and Gattaca. > > No it doesn't. Gattaca maybe. Glory Season, only on a new planet with > the geneering done at the time of colonisation. > Why do you think Glory Season so unlikely, with high-tech replacing the genetic manipulation? Lots of lesbians cloning themselves, and eventually mixing genes with another lesbian? >> Selection at the level >> of eggs may be what we will do - and then there's no reason >> why both eggs can't come from two women. > > Urm... maybe there's a way to combine two eggs. But why? Better to > substitute the DNA in a spermatozoa and let that do the job. The pain > involved in fusing two eggs to viability is just not worth it. > It may not be now, but we are talking about the long-range future of Humanity. If it's possible, then someone will do it. >> Males are doomed to extinction > > Rubbish. Even aphids need males. > Males evolved *because* they were required to cause genetic variation. If we do *not* want to mutate - are you ready to replace Homo sapiens for Homo invictus or some other Evil Race from SF? - then cloning and elimination of variety is all we will get. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
