Yale Study Suggests That ‘Different-Sex Sexual Behavior’ Is Not Considered The Norm In The Animal Kingdom
Scientists have been looking at ‘same-sex sexual behavior’ all wrong, a team of researches from the Yale school of Forestry and Environmental Studies claim.
They state that ‘same-sex sexual behavior’ (SSB) would not be considered anomalous or abnormal but rather the “baseline” for sexual activity in the animal kingdom, ‘The Next Web’ reports.
“A generally held belief about SSB is that it serves no evolutionary purpose. Some early biologists also hypothesized that SSB is counter-productive to reproduction. It turns out there’s almost no evidence to support these assumptions,” the article states.
Mostly they suggest that we do not yet have enough information about ‘homosexuality’ in general, saying: “Scientists haven’t systematically studied same-sex sexual behavior in animals. Most observations have been accidental, and biologists have often viewed sex between two animals of the same sex as irrelevant or improper to note, Monk said. Sometimes, researchers automatically assume that same-sex behavior isn’t really about sex but instead is about dominance or bonding. And often, if two animals are observed having sex, they’re assumed to be male and female without any confirmatory evidence.”
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