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ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2024

The Desirable Dad Hypothesis: Male Same-Sex Attraction as the Product of Selection for Paternal Care via Antagonistic Pleiotropy.

Thomas Felesina, Brendan Zietsch

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas FelesinaSchool of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Level 3, McElwain Building (24A), St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia. t.felesina@uqconnect.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-9788-5623
Brendan ZietschSchool of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0274-6140
The University of Queensland · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Same-sex attraction, a heritable trait with a reproductive cost, lacks a comprehensive evolutionary explanation. Here we build on a hypothesis invoking antagonistic pleiotropy, which suggests that genes linked to male same-sex attraction remain in the gene pool because they have conferred some fitness advantage to heterosexual men possessing them. We posit the "desirable dad hypothesis," which proposes that alleles linked to male non-heterosexual orientations increase traits conducive to childcare; heterosexual men possessing same-sex attracted alleles are more desirable mating partners as a function of possessing superior paternal qualities. We conducted three studies to test predictions from this hypothesis. Results were consistent with all three predictions. Study 1 (N = 1632) showed that heterosexual men with same-sex attracted relatives were more feminine than men without, as indicated by self-report measures of femininity (η

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Homosexuality, MaleAdolescentAdultFemaleFemininityGenetic PleiotropyHeterosexualityHumansMaleMiddle AgedSexual PartnersYoung AdultBehavior geneticsDarwinian paradoxEvolutionEvolutionary psychologyHomosexuality

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PMID38177607
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