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==Life history speed== | ==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| | 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| | 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. | A better explanation for the promiscuous homosexual lifestyle rather than fast life history, is thus simply the absence of female coyness. | ||