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Hi Kenneth Van Oost -
>Our social/ cultural and religious behaviors make sex far more compli-
>cated than it should be ( for propagation sake that is).
I'm sure a rapist feels the same way, which is perhaps the core statement
that that infamous book that came out a few months ago generated so much
controversy over.
>it makes you wonder if evolution is so blind to the future
>as we think she is.
Mate selection _seems_ not to be blind to the future, but, it's also
largely a function of responses and behaviors that were selected for, not
designed.
Like the good cliché says, put it to a committee to design, and you'll
get a camel (or an SUV) where a horse (or a well-maintained society)
would serve better.
Yes, I do see the SUV as the most blatant and glaring augury of
dissolution and disease in the social fabric....
;-)
- Wade
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