The Telegraph
includes this comment from the interestingly-named Dr Roughgarden:
>Dr Joan Roughgarden, a biologist at Stanford University, said the macaque
>was just one of many species that did not fit Darwin's theory of sex selection.
>
>Female langur monkeys promiscuously mated with many males, for instance.
>Homosexuality in animals - at least 300 invertebrates practise it - was
>also unexplained by Darwin.
>
>Dr Roughgarden said that a more comprehensive theory of sex selection
>should take into account social as well as sexual selection. Mating could
>function to build and manage relationships as well as to reproduce.
>"Female choice, I am pretty sure, has much more to do with managing male
>power than it does with trying to obtain good genes."
So are examples of same sex activity a bye product of whichever sex is more active in initiating biological reproduction, or are they part of social reproduction?
Chris Burford London