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Even though the excessive promiscuous male homosexual lifestyle points to a high sex drive, i.e. a fast [[life history]] adaptation, there is evidence that some forms of homosexuality, and especially homosociality are more [[life history|K-selected]], i.e. indicator of high complexity in social behavior, not of low. | Even though the excessive promiscuous male homosexual lifestyle points to a high sex drive, i.e. a fast [[life history]] adaptation, there is evidence that some forms of homosexuality, and especially homosociality are more [[life history|K-selected]], i.e. indicator of high complexity in social behavior, not of low. | ||
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]] | 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> and homosexuals tend to be overall [[feminization|feminized]] (see the above). | ||
There are both r and K aspects to male homosexuality and there likely exist homosexuals with different behavioral dispositions along the life history speed spectrum. | There are both r and K aspects to male homosexuality and there likely exist homosexuals with different behavioral dispositions along the life history speed spectrum. | ||