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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. You know, they've observed homosexual behavior in

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Speaker 1: about a thousand species, and often it does. Even though

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Speaker 1: this goes against what you would think with Darwinism, which

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Speaker 1: is all about survival of the fittest and survival of

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Speaker 1: the species, and so if you're not pro creating, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think it would occur in nature. But it does

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Speaker 1: have some evolutionary advantage. For example, penguins, they can share

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Speaker 1: the parenting responsibilities. There are a number of bird species

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Speaker 1: where this happens, where gay birds will raise the eggs

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Speaker 1: if the females have abandoned the I don't think you

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Speaker 1: can judge it on its appearing for a peacock. Peacock definitely. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about insects though. Billions of insects, this is

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Speaker 1: the headline in a science journal are having gay sex accidentally.

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Speaker 1: So they're now claiming the long observed practice of insects

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Speaker 1: and spiders having same sex mating. They're saying it's accidental.

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Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of male insects engage in homosexual acts.

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Speaker 1: It's because in these bugs there is such a rush

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Speaker 1: to reproduce. One of the strongest evolutionary drives they don't

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Speaker 1: take time to inspect their potential mate's gender, often accidentally

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Speaker 1: lea leading to same sex mating. So the spiders and

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Speaker 1: insects haven't evolved to properly discriminate in their mating choices.

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Speaker 1: So this study or how about this, this is what

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Speaker 1: is written in the journal Insects and Spiders Mate Quick

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Speaker 1: and Dirty. The cost of taking the time to identify

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Speaker 1: the gender of mates, or the cost of hesitation, appears

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Speaker 1: to be greater than the cost of making some mistakes.

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Speaker 1: So researchers proposed that insect homosexual activity occurs because males

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Speaker 1: carry some pheromones from previous sexual activities with other females.

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Speaker 1: And it is also this that attracts the male insect

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Speaker 1: to another mate because they can smell females. So they're

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Speaker 1: just like mad Monday, just going out not caring what

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Speaker 1: the result is, and they can still go home to

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Speaker 1: their friends and say it's accidental. It's accidental. Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's gnation