From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Wed 10 Mar 2004 - 16:19:18 GMT
Chris Taylor wrote:
> My blanket loathing of all things EP (sorry) stems from
> the fact that if these complex behavioural suites are under
> genetic control, then more fundamental stuff like sexuality
> (and a string of nasty dysfunctional behaviours) *surely must
> be*, which (apart from having been squarely squashed through
> proper research) opens a rather ugly can of fascists.
I think it's the word "control" that's getting you in trouble here. It's a
rather extreme position to assert that genetic adaptations through the
millennia have no influence whatsoever on psychology. I don't see the
usefulness of such a position.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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