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Muscarella suggested peripheralized men can establish sexually intimate social ties with sexually frustrated men of higher social standing, to partially re-gain their access to resources and potentially restoring some [[reproductive success]] (and hence be adaptive behavior).<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n01_03</ref> Pederasty in several cultures like Romans and Ancient Japan may be related to such adaptive behavior as the growing boys often lack status and can gain access to resources through a more dominant/older male, as well as get resources in terms of knowledge being passed on from a more experienced male. | Muscarella suggested peripheralized men can establish sexually intimate social ties with sexually frustrated men of higher social standing, to partially re-gain their access to resources and potentially restoring some [[reproductive success]] (and hence be adaptive behavior).<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n01_03</ref> Pederasty in several cultures like Romans and Ancient Japan may be related to such adaptive behavior as the growing boys often lack status and can gain access to resources through a more dominant/older male, as well as get resources in terms of knowledge being passed on from a more experienced male. | ||
Resources are scarcer and hence more important in [[life history|harsh ecologies]] such as the winter in Northern/Eastern hemispheres, so one would expect [[life history|k-selected]] males there to exhibit more homocel and homosocial behavior to get some crumbs in dire conditions, whereas peripheralized males in easy, tropical ecologies can simply pick fruits all year long. Evidence for this may be that U.S. Asians are three times more likely to report a homosexual orientation than the country average.<ref>http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-east-asians-blunted-sense-of-disgust.html</ref> | Resources are scarcer and hence more important in [[life history|harsh ecologies]] such as the winter in Northern/Eastern hemispheres, so one would expect [[life history|k-selected]] males there to exhibit more homocel and homosocial behavior to get some crumbs in dire conditions, whereas peripheralized males in easy, tropical ecologies can simply pick fruits all year long. Evidence for this may be that U.S. Asians are three times more likely to report a homosexual orientation than the country's average.<ref>http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-east-asians-blunted-sense-of-disgust.html</ref> | ||
Evidence for homocel hypothesis can also be found in [[Behavioral sink|mouse utopia experiments]], where socially deprived rodents in extremely overpopulated environments started engaging in deviant sexual behavior, including homosexuality. | Evidence for homocel hypothesis can also be found in [[Behavioral sink|mouse utopia experiments]], where socially deprived rodents in extremely overpopulated environments started engaging in deviant sexual behavior, including homosexuality. | ||