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:
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>Oh dear yes. HOOT! WEEP! *Sob* BBBBAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFF
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>Evolution/Ecology indeed!
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>I wonder where all the police and the law courts have disappeared to?
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>The outraged community, the hullabaloo and bruhaha?
[Etc.]
Gil, I do wish you would take your medication like a good boy.
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>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
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