Darwin Day 2015 Questions: #1 Is Homosexuality Nature's Population Control?
Richard Dawkins answers your questions about evolution in honor of Darwin Day 2015. “I've always believed that homosexuality was nature's population control so that we don't overpopulate....
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(Music playing) Richard Dawkins: Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809: Darwin Day. In honor of Darwin Day we issued an appeal for questions on evolution that I might answer. And I'm going to now answer them. "I've always believed homosexuality was nature's population control so that we don't overpopulate. Thoughts?" That's a very tempting error, not with respect to homosexuality, but with respect to the idea that nature does population control. That's not the way nature works. It's so tempting to think "Oh well, things would be best for the species so nature will do whatever it takes to keep the species going." And that's just not the way evolution works. Natural selection works at the l...
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(Music playing) Richard Dawkins: Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809: Darwin Day. In honor of Darwin Day we issued an appeal for questions on evolution that I might answer. And I'm going to now answer them. "I've always believed homosexuality was nature's population control so that we don't overpopulate. Thoughts?" That's a very tempting error, not with respect to homosexuality, but with respect to the idea that nature does population control. That's not the way nature works. It's so tempting to think "Oh well, things would be best for the species so nature will do whatever it takes to keep the species going." And that's just not the way evolution works. Natural selection works at the l...
