Gay men’s tendency to lavish love and attention on their nieces and nephews could be a key to keeping a “gay gene” alive, a study shows. Looking at male homosexuals in Samoa—where they’re considered their own gender, and therefore fully integrated into family life—scientists saw that children with doting gay uncles were more likely to thrive and have their own kids. That means they pass along, if indirectly, the bloodlines that carried any genetic coding related to their uncles’ homosexuality.
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