Homosexuality and Natural Selection.

The reason this is not so is because banging out as many offspring as possible is not necessarily the most advantageous way of passing on ones genes.The human brain takes a long time to develop and relies on a great deal of parental resource and nurturing to reach full maturity.As a species we have gone down the 'large investment in fewer offspring' route as opposed to the 'whack out as many sprogs as possible and let them fend for themselves and take their chances' approach.

I had to look up the meaning of fecundity.
I have therefore learnt a new word today.I think it would be hard to argue that in a species like ours that relies on intelligence and learning, things that take time and nurturing to develop, fecundity would be more advantageous than the parental investment route.

Fair enough.You sound like you know what you are talking about and I have no real reason to take issue with your argument which sounds reasonable enough.
So it would seem Ana had a valid point after all.I was doing nothing more than applying what seemed like common sense to the situation.
As I am constantly telling people here at EvC, if nature worked by the principles of common sense alone we would barely need science at all anyway.So I should listen to my own advice in future....So where does the issue of fecundity lead us regards homosexuality and natural selection?
If what you say about fecundity is true what conclusions can we draw about the naturalness or otherwise of homosexuality?