Natural Selection II
In my continuing, back-burner research to demonstrate my point that many, many people (including quite a few who should know better) totally misunderstand the operating of natural selection and its relation to evolution, behold this crystal-clear example.
From The Advocate magazine (17 August 2004–I'm behind in my reading), in an article ("It's All Natural") about the work of "biologist and transwoman Joan Roughgarden", the journalist (Christopher Lisotta) writes:
But as every good scientist knows, there has to be some biological reason for homosexuality, or it wouldn't exist at all.
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