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Model of sexual orientation continuum (2016)

Skinner, B.

Royal Society

In: Royal Society Open Science

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Publication Date: 2016-09-16

Description: Same-sex sexual behaviour is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, but its adaptive origins remain a prominent puzzle. Here, I suggest the possibility that same-sex sexual behaviour arises as a consequence of the competition between an evolutionary drive for a wide diversity in traits, which improves the adaptability of a population, and a drive for sexual dichotomization of traits, which promotes opposite-sex attraction and increases the rate of reproduction. This trade-off is explored via a simple mathematical ‘toy model’. The model exhibits a number of interesting features and suggests a simple mathematical form for describing the sexual orientation continuum.

Keywords: statistical physics, theoretical biology

Electronic ISSN: 2054-5703

Topics: Natural Sciences in General

Published by Royal Society

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