Same-sex relationships may play an important role in evolution


	Same-sex relationships may play an important role in evolution

JohnWaterman

6-18-2009 4:35 PM

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6-20-2009 6:49 PM

tanyamm

Hopefully this will make a lot of clippers happy.

6-21-2009 11:28 AM

jay8h

It will make gay clippers happier if they see themselves on the same level as the animals.

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							<IMG height="276" width="460" alt="Same-sex pair of albatross" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/17/1245252894338/Same-sex-pair-of-albatros-001.jpg" />
									  <P class="caption">Almost a third of Laysan albatross couples are female-female pairs that build nests and rear young together. They are more reproductively successful than unpaired females. Photograph: Eric VanderWerf/Trends in Ecology & Evolution</p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals"><P>Birds do it. Bees probably do it. No one's sure whether educated fleas do it. What they do is have same-sex relationships and, in a new review of published research on the subject, biologists have started to consider what it might mean for the <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/evolution">evolution</A> of the <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/animals">animals</A> in question.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals"> same-sex relationships were a universal phenomenon in the <A title="Zoology articles, Guardian" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/zoology">animal kingdom</A>, seen in everything from worms</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals">bonobos, dolphins, penguins and fruit flies</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals">male bottlenose dolphins</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals">engage in same-sex interactions to facilitate group bonding, or female Laysan albatross that can remain pair-bonded for life and cooperatively rear young</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals">the relationships shape the course of evolution</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jun/17/same-sex-relationships-gay-animals">same-sex behaviors might act as selective forces in and of themselves</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FFF23BEF-6DB7-400F-9B63-0FDB426E9459/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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