Evolutionary Benefits of Sexual behaviors
Evolution uses all aspects of mental and physical attributes to help ensure survival of the species.
{Some people are still arguing there is no evolution, you guys can stop reading here now.]
One behavior that is hotly contested as for morality is sexual promiscuity.
Sex is good, it makes more babies. Thats not allways a good thing, as sometimes fewer babies are better.
Sometimes, babies produced in one mother from SEVERAL different fathers serves the group best, and so evolution will do it that way. Evidence is found in the research announced today that shows Voles will change from promiscuos to monogamous [monogamouse? lol] DEPENDING ON A GENE!!!
Here we thought this was a choice,a moral question, but turns out it is a genetically designed preference!!
Whatever is best for the species, its a real love kinda thing eh?
This research took a gene from one type of Vole who is monogamous,and put it in the other type of Vole that is promiscous. It became promiscous.
And visa versa - read all about it here -
link:
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=454&id=687812004
Karlin
PS - no evolution? C'mon, you musta got that from some religious source, and they are all discredited now. All of them are discredited by the simple fact that they are all claiming ONE GOD, OUR GOD.
They cannot all be right, but they can all be wrong!!