Re: Incest taboos

Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
14 May 1995 08:19:54 -0600

In article <748@landmark.iinet.net.au>,
Gil Hardwick <gil@landmark.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>Oh dear yes. HOOT! WEEP! *Sob* BBBBAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFF
>
>Evolution/Ecology indeed!
>
>I wonder where all the police and the law courts have disappeared to?
>
>The outraged community, the hullabaloo and bruhaha?

[Etc.]

Gil, I do wish you would take your medication like a good boy.

>
>That we can avoid incest because natural selection has now made our
>sister-rooting gene subordinate to our law-and-order gene. I wonder
>how much longer it will be before we find our stealing gene and our
>murdering gene both similarly subordinate, that we might finally find
>true bliss and live in Paradise On Earth!

Methinks you've confused behavioral genetics with evolutionary psychology.
But then, I do seem to recall your objection to the very idea of
evolution by selection, eh?

Bryant
Evolution/Ecology Program
UNM