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Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Human Homosexuality

If the association between cooperation and homosexuality is correct, then we should expect humans to show more homosexuality than most other complex animals, with the possible exception of bonobos, who, as Wrangham and Peterson (1996) argue, may be even more cooperative and more homosexual. I think humans do practice more homosexuality, although an overconcentration on North European cultures may sometimes confuse the issue. As I pointed out elsewhere (Werner 1990), North European cultures are extremely unusual in restricting homosexual behavior to the more or less exclusively homosexual. In the rest of the world homosexual behavior is much more generalized. Normal men have sexual relations with the exclusive homosexuals, or with each other at different ages.