Recruiting your children just isn't enough for these sick freaks! They want EVERYTHING to be gay! EVERYTHING!
A team of American biologists was able to genetically alter tiny worms to make them attracted to worms of the same sex, a finding they said provides evidence that sexual orientation is wired in the creatures' nervous system.
The study by University of Utah researchers, published online on Thursday in the scientific journal Current Biology, looked at tiny soil worms called nematodes, or C. elegans, most of which are hermaphrodites that can reproduce by themselves.
One in 500 nematodes develops into a male, however, and these males are attracted to the pheromones of the hermaphrodites. The researchers at the University of Utah thought that this attraction was due to physical changes during the development of the worms that are unique to the males of the species.
Instead, they found that when certain genes found in the neural network and common to both males and hermaphrodites were altered in hermaphrodites, it made the hermaphrodites seek out other hermaphrodites, even though they possessed none of the other physical characteristics of the males.
"The conclusion is that sexual attraction is wired into brain circuits common to both sexes of worms, and is not caused solely by extra nerve cells added to the male or female brain," said laboratory leader and University of Utah biology professor Erik Jorgensen in a statement.
The researchers cautioned that while the results hold true for worms, "our conclusions are narrow in that they are about worms and how attraction behaviours are derived from the same brain circuit.
(I don't get the following part: are they saying that evolutionists are sexually attracted to worms? Because that would explain a lot.)
"But an evolutionary biologist will consider this to be a potentially common mechanism for sexual attraction," said Jorgensen, who also acts as an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Previous research published in Science in 2003 showed that the worms start out as hermaphrodites when in the larval stage. When there was an abundance of food, some of the XX chromosome hermaphrodites would shed an X chromosome and become male.
Scientists often use C. elegans as a research model because it is easier to study biological processes in the microscopic worms, which mature in days.
Okay, that confirms it: evoluntionists get turned on by gay pubescent worms. Since worms can't be expected to survive a sexual encounter with a full-grown human, they need a lot of replacement lovers, so they choose a kind of worm that hits puberty fast.
A team of American biologists was able to genetically alter tiny worms to make them attracted to worms of the same sex, a finding they said provides evidence that sexual orientation is wired in the creatures' nervous system.
The study by University of Utah researchers, published online on Thursday in the scientific journal Current Biology, looked at tiny soil worms called nematodes, or C. elegans, most of which are hermaphrodites that can reproduce by themselves.
One in 500 nematodes develops into a male, however, and these males are attracted to the pheromones of the hermaphrodites. The researchers at the University of Utah thought that this attraction was due to physical changes during the development of the worms that are unique to the males of the species.
Instead, they found that when certain genes found in the neural network and common to both males and hermaphrodites were altered in hermaphrodites, it made the hermaphrodites seek out other hermaphrodites, even though they possessed none of the other physical characteristics of the males.
"The conclusion is that sexual attraction is wired into brain circuits common to both sexes of worms, and is not caused solely by extra nerve cells added to the male or female brain," said laboratory leader and University of Utah biology professor Erik Jorgensen in a statement.
The researchers cautioned that while the results hold true for worms, "our conclusions are narrow in that they are about worms and how attraction behaviours are derived from the same brain circuit.
(I don't get the following part: are they saying that evolutionists are sexually attracted to worms? Because that would explain a lot.)
"But an evolutionary biologist will consider this to be a potentially common mechanism for sexual attraction," said Jorgensen, who also acts as an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Previous research published in Science in 2003 showed that the worms start out as hermaphrodites when in the larval stage. When there was an abundance of food, some of the XX chromosome hermaphrodites would shed an X chromosome and become male.
Scientists often use C. elegans as a research model because it is easier to study biological processes in the microscopic worms, which mature in days.
Okay, that confirms it: evoluntionists get turned on by gay pubescent worms. Since worms can't be expected to survive a sexual encounter with a full-grown human, they need a lot of replacement lovers, so they choose a kind of worm that hits puberty fast.
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