Today, researchers also believe that male homosexuality may be carried in a mother’s gene. Correlations have been found between homosexual men and their mothers and maternal aunts, who tend to have significantly more children than the relatives of straight men. This correlation is called the “balancing selection hypothesis”. The balancing selection hypothesis suggests that genes which lean to homosexuality also lead to high reproduction among females in the family. This so called “gay gene” may not be passed down by generation but rather survive through the generation via the