{"id":76014,"date":"2023-10-03T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-10-03\/la-homosexualidad-en-los-mamiferos-tiene-una-utilidad-evolutiva.html"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:59:42","slug":"la-homosexualidad-en-los-mamiferos-tiene-una-utilidad-evolutiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/la-homosexualidad-en-los-mamiferos-tiene-una-utilidad-evolutiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuality in mammals has evolutionary utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science has documented the <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-07-10\/los-machos-de-macaco-rhesus-de-una-isla-en-el-caribe-practican-mas-sexo-entre-ellos-que-con-las-hembras.html\" >homosexual behavior<\/a> in about 1,500 species of all orders of the animal kingdom, from insects <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2019\/09\/26\/ciencia\/1569496731_126842.html\" >even the primates<\/a>, passing through spiders, dolphins or nematodes. This universality may have baffled Charles Darwin. In fact, sexual relations with peers of the same sex is considered a Darwinian paradox: from the point of view of <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2018\/09\/25\/ciencia\/1537872084_647675.html\" >The theory of evolution<\/a>, represents a cost to the biological effectiveness of the individual as it does not have a direct effect on the ultimate goal, the perpetuation of the species. But there may be other indirect effects that explain not only its survival, but also give it a prominent role in the evolution of a good part of living beings. This is what is suggested by a scientific work that shows how homosexual behavior in mammals, although a minority, is more frequent in the more social species.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-10-03\/la-homosexualidad-en-los-mamiferos-tiene-una-utilidad-evolutiva.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study shows that it is more common in social species and animals where there is lethal aggression between males, where it would function as an adaptive mechanism to reduce aggressiveness.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76015,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions\/76015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}