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=== Other hypotheses === | === Other evolutionary hypotheses === | ||
Rather than just one cause, multiple causes and adaptive pressures may be involved in the phenomenon of male homosexuality. Few of these explanations are mutually exclusive. | Rather than just one cause, multiple causes and adaptive pressures may be involved in the phenomenon of male homosexuality. Few of these explanations are mutually exclusive. | ||
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Explanations include that the expectation that men can be gay increases the fear that other men could be gay and thus male intimacy could lead to a greater risk of being regarded as gay (male intrasexual competition). Also decreasing gender segregation may have increased male intrasexual competition.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053535711000321</ref> | Explanations include that the expectation that men can be gay increases the fear that other men could be gay and thus male intimacy could lead to a greater risk of being regarded as gay (male intrasexual competition). Also decreasing gender segregation may have increased male intrasexual competition.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053535711000321</ref> | ||
== Life history speed == | |||
Even though the anonymous promiscuous male homosexual lifestyle points to a high sex drive, i.e. a fast [[life history]] adapatation, there is evidence that homosexuality, and especially homosociality are more [[life history|k-selected]], i.e. indicator of higher complexity in social behavior, not lower. | |||
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> Homosexual orientation is in fact also related to [[IQ]].<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221794570_Intelligence_and_homosexuality</ref> | |||
A better explanation for the promiscuous homosexual lifestyle rather than fast life history, is thus simply the absence of female coyness. | |||
== Statistics == | == Statistics == | ||