Konkvistador comments on How to Avoid the Conflict Between Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology? - Less Wrong
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Yeah, you probably need to read more books on evolutionary biology. While technically correct the latter sentence is a misleading generalization when thinking about certain traits. I recommend you start by familiarizing yourself with genetic load to see an example of how evolution can end up relatively inefficient at doing some things. Also note the role of path dependence in the natural world.
A noisy figure, we have estimates going from 1% to about 6% for all non-heterosexual people depending on country and methodology. Statistics vary but about 2% of men are totally infertile. We also have infectious diseases and parasite infection rates for some organisms above 5% in human populations that get in the way of spreading genes as much as homosexuality. This is considered a plausible explanation too:
What if the allele for homosexuality is recessive (you need two copies of it to be homosexual), and having one copy of it has some advantage (the way having one copy of the sickle-cell allele makes you resistant to malaria)?