I'm not talking about natural selection, I'm talking about sexual selection, which is a completely different animal. Sexual selection leads to really bizarre adaptations, like male peacock tails and mating dances that seem maladaptive in the context of natural selection. Natural selection is about finding enough food to live long enough to mate. Sexual selection is about competing within the same species for mates.
Because slightly more highly creative people are homosexual doesn't necessarily mean creativity isn't attractive. It could just be that homosexuals have more time to devote creative tasks due lack of childcare responsibilities.
I would say that people often aren't consciously aware of why they are exhibiting creativity. On top of that, I would guess that homosexuals value finding mates just as highly as heterosexuals, which would be at least one reason why they would exhibit creativity, consciously or unconsciously.
Re:Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
by zerostar07 on Saturday January 21, 2012 @11:07AM
(#3493798)
Sexual selection also requires reproduction. Whatever way one sees it, the data doesn't support the view that nature selects for creativity.
Homosexuals also have eyes. Does this mean that nature doesn't select for eyes?
Re:Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
by zerostar07 on Sunday January 22, 2012 @04:06AM
(#3496094)
Let me put I bluntly if all homosexuals had third eye, it would never be selected for.
People with non-mainstream careers are less likely to conceal their sexuality, and also the converse.
One study of the biographies of 1004 eminent people found homosexual and bisexual people overrepresented (11 percent of the sample), especially among poets (24 percent), fiction writers (21 percent), and artists and musicians (15 percent) (Ludwig, 1995)[1]
Surely if artistic creativity was evolutionarily so advantageous it wouldn't hide itself in the least-reproducing subpopulations
[1] http://www.davidmyers.org/davidmyers/assets/Sex-Orient-9e.pd...