Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Evidence for maternally inherited factors favouring male homosexuality and promoting female fecundity

18 Oct 2004

Abstract excerpt

The Darwinian paradox of male homosexuality in humans is examined, i.e. if male homosexuality has a genetic component and homosexuals reproduce less than heterosexuals, then why is this trait maintained in the population? In a sample of 98 homosexual and 100 heterosexual men and their relatives (a total of over 4600 individuals), we found that female maternal relatives of homosexuals have higher fecundity than...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Reproductive Health and Technologies

Source

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Identifiers

PMID: 15539346
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2872

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 6 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Evidence for maternally inherited factors favouring male homosexuality and promoting female fecundityPMID 15539346Read ↗

Maternal Inheritance and Familial Fecundity Factors in Male HomosexualitySemantic proximity Read ↗

Factors associated with higher fecundity in female maternal relatives of homosexual men.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Heritable spouse effects increase evolutionary potential of human reproductive timing.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Half as high for twice as long: patriarchy and the age-structure of human fertilitySemantic proximity Read ↗

Contraception ends the genetic maintenance of human same-sex sexual behavior.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Reproduction: The genetic basis of heterostyly.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Contraception ends the genetic maintenance of human same-sex sexual behaviorSemantic proximity Read ↗

An association between male homosexuality and reproductive success.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Bio-social determinants of fertility.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Colloquium papers: Heritability of reproductive fitness traits in a human population.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women.Semantic proximity Read ↗

New Evidence of Genetic Factors Influencing Sexual Orientation in Men: Female Fecundity Increase in the Maternal LineSemantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.