Gay men could be the product of a failed abortion according to an Oxford professor. Bryan Sykes, Professor of Genetics, suggests that homosexuality may be the result of a maternal instinct to kill male foetuses in the womb. Sykes finds the current ‘gay gene’ theory – that homosexuality is carried on the Y chromosome – problematic: if men pass on the gay gene, why isn’t it dying out? The Professor proposes that the genetic predisposition to homosexuality is linked to mDNA, which is found only in the female egg. Sykes, whose new book “Adam’s Curse: A Future without Men” also predicts the imminent extinction of the male sex, thinks that mDNA actively tries to destroy male foetuses or to make them gay, so eliminating the Y chromosome and guaranteeing the perpetuation of X chromosomes alone.ARCHIVE: 1st Weeks MT2003
