Is there a biological component to being gay beyond the chemical composition of the brain?
Is there a biological component to being gay beyond the chemical composition of the brain? Maybe that's not clear. Is being gay written into the DNA of the body?
In dog breeds certain characteristics such as enhanced smelling capabilities, sight, hunting, herding etc. have been known to express themselves physically. For example, a famous breeding program in Russia (if I remember correctly) demonstrated that breeding for heightened sense of smell in canines resulted in dogs with similar physical features even though their lines came from different stock. It explains why herding breeds all have similar features as well as gun dogs, fighting dogs, etc.
Does this translate over to human beings? Are there physical traits that show up in confident people? Funny people? Natural hunters? PhDs?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/07/new-artificial-intelligence-can-tell-whether-youre-gay-or-straight-from-a-photograph
In dog breeds certain characteristics such as enhanced smelling capabilities, sight, hunting, herding etc. have been known to express themselves physically. For example, a famous breeding program in Russia (if I remember correctly) demonstrated that breeding for heightened sense of smell in canines resulted in dogs with similar physical features even though their lines came from different stock. It explains why herding breeds all have similar features as well as gun dogs, fighting dogs, etc.
Does this translate over to human beings? Are there physical traits that show up in confident people? Funny people? Natural hunters? PhDs?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/07/new-artificial-intelligence-can-tell-whether-youre-gay-or-straight-from-a-photograph
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There was a time when people made strong claims that being gay was genetic, and that was interrupted pretty seriously when a certain Austrian madman started rounding them up and killing them, under the idea that he could then remove them from the genetic stock of humanity, at which point there was at least somewhat of a movement towards it being either a choice or a consequence of early childhood experience, rather than genetic.
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This is like the machine learning researchers in China that claimed they could identify a tendency for criminality from the face.