Homosexuality may be inherent to individuals who practice

March 28, 2009 at 3:28 pm (CULTURE, Science, Social issues)
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Homosexuality may be inherent to individuals who practice. One of the examples usually advances is in fact that of animals – that if they are not know to be homosexual, how could a whole human being be? Homosexuality has nothing to do with lifestyle. Animals are not known to have lifestyles, but act on instincts, and in this case there is a homosexual instinct in some horses.

Mw. Obargot writes: “If homosexuality is genetic predisposition, then it means in the many secondary and post-secondary schools in the country, we should have had homosexuals going about practicing their homosexuality; absence of which disprove the theory.” This is again too simplistic and mundane as control evidence on such a controversial subject, and cannot even be taken seriously. A quick internet search will reveal a volume of more scientific research by reputable universities to suggest that homosexuality may actually be inherent.  Also, homosexuality in Uganda is outlawed and is an offence.

Obargot wrote:”It is upto the populations to kill homosexuality quietly without making too much noise about it.” we all appreciate human sexuality is a highly complex issue but years of research and experiment do show that sexuality is hard-wired into our brains, so how can you justify the killing of a few whose sexual preference happens to be slightly different from the majority are used to?

Also, there is overwhelming evidence that second and third-born sons are more likely to be gay than first-born boys; should we ignore those findings and “quietly” kill those unfortunate ones just because of a hormonal change as during their developmental stages in the womb?

Worth noting that WHO finally came to the conclusion in the early 1990s that homosexuality is not an illness.

Obargot adds:”There are homosexuals out there who are working to plant it in the populations…” Of course, society is full of experimenters, the undecided/confused/borderline who usually fall prey to all sort of dubious influence. But like in every minority group, survival is critical. You get the extreme cases who insist on changing the status quo by all means possible (those “working to plant it in the populations”) and you also get those who keep a low profile (the don’t ask don’t tell types). Most importantly, when being wiped out “quietly” is a widely held view can we be be too surprised when gays embark on building capacity?

Bottom line is, considering the animosity meted out on homosexuals, I doubt people chose to be that which is so detested by mainstream society.

Peter Senoga & Musisi Bosco

UAH forumists residing in the UK

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Lake Victoria and Fish

November 24, 2008 at 10:42 am (Science)
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Scientists Discover Fish in Act of Evolution in Africa’s Greatest Lake

Author photo Written by Sam Aola Ooko
Published on October 7th, 2008
Posted in Africa, Global

cichlids-fish-species-evolving-in-lake-victoria In what could be a first in the world, a fish species in the cichlid family has been observed by scientists in the act of splitting into two distinct species in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake and one of the world’s biggest fresh water bodies.

This may be remarkable because what is causing them to diverge are adaptations to their vision as animals and plants try to cope with increased pollution and the effects of climate change. The change is also happening without geographical isolation, which was thought to be a precursor for evolution.

The Pundamilia nyererei is a haplochromine type cichlid native to areas in the Mwanza Gulf region of Lake Victoria. This region consists of many islands where each island region has its own color variant of the fish.

In a report published in the journal Nature, researchers from Tokyo’s Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology have observed the cichlid evolve into a new species better adapted in sighting its prey and predator.
But the scientists have also tabled evidence indicating that it is not pollution and over-fishing alone that are responsible for the disappearance of some fish species in Lake Victoria and the evolving of others like the cichlid into new species.
The report summarizes that new species may be born because of vision differences and what fish see at least in one African lake could be the driving force that causes them to evolve into new species.

This may explain the very rapid loss of pundamilia in Lake Victoria over the past 30 years. The study says the eye adaptations have also affected mating patterns.
Researchers looked at two species, conspicuous by their red or blue colours. They determined through lab experiments that certain genetic mutations helped some fish adapt their vision at deeper levels to see the colour red and others in shallower water to recognise shades of blue.

The researchers showed that the eyes have adapted to this difference so that fish that live in deeper water have a pigment in their eyes that is more sensitive to red light, while shallow-water fish were sensitive to blue.

Generally, the evolutionary process of speciation (the formation of new species) occurs when one species is split by a physical distance or barrier, allowing each group to develop different traits. The observations of Lake Victoria’s cichlids provide evidence of an unusual form of evolution known as sympatric speciation, which occurs without the physical separation of a population group.

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Comment By Jeniffer .B(New York)

This may not be sympatric speciation but  a possiblitity of deep water dwelling fish coming  to adapt to the surface as result of overfishing the top layer dwelling species. To be able to appreciate this purported evolutionary nyererei species, we need to know all the types of fish, their color, at different water depth habitats as well as their visual color acuties. then we compare,physically,macro and micro -genetics.  One needs to appreciate the enormous diversity of the acquatic /marine animal diversity before they conclude and jump up and down as new discoverers of the new species. I see all kinds of fish in fish tanks everyday, and for L.victoria, one of the world’s youngest lakes, cased in the heart of the poor Africa away from the aggressive and rich scientific researchers of the west,it is hard to accept such discoveries without serious thought. How long did the research last, how many fish species did lake Victoria have say twenty years ago, which types have gone extict and which ones are now new.Which species dwell where , bottom, sides, or surface of the lake? What colors do the different types of fish respond to in their sight. How far do they see, what pigment is giving the fish color, idodine, bromine ,chlorophyl (green, blue or red). Bromine is the commonest marine halide that gives color to aquatic animals, so what has changed here. These are some of the issues we need to know in order to celebrate the new discovery.

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