Why not deny the empirical fact - given all we have for data is a second-hand report about a newspaper column! Indeed, the ease with which the clever people on this list are able to generate explanations that go either way seems to me to be a bad sign for evolutionary psychology.
Alex -- Dr. Alexander Tabarrok Vice President and Director of Research The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
