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[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago

Some people claim homosexuality is as old as humanity. This is clearly wrong. Homosexuality is much older

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Likely as old as sexuality itself.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

So as old as multicellular life. Which I completely agree with.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably not quite that old. Sexuality probably developed in the Proterozoic as a means of diversifying reproductive burden and offsetting parasites.

Multicellular life predates this by quite a bit.

So homosexuality likely dates back to the Proterozoic Era when the sexes where largely dimorphic and prone to shift as needed. Life ... uh, finds a way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Single cell life doesn't have sexuality, not even all multicellular organisms do. And there are lifeforms like plants that throw around their pollen and hope that pollen of the opposite sex meet or make insects or alike distribute their pollen to other plants. That's sexuality in the biological sense, too

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