Warren wrote:
zim wrote:
Rape is "favored" in some sense in that males who have little or no chance of non-coercive copulation can procreate through rape.
This is similar to what Dan mentioned about Ghengis Khan -- but it's still disseminating genes, not actually changing a species. At best rape might be *neutral* evolutionarily -- neither favored nor selected against -- but I'm still unconvinced that it can be said to actually be selected for in the evolutionary scheme.
If a conquered community's offspring were mostly procreated by one man or one man and his immediate relatives, wouldn't this reduce the genetic diversity of a population and thus result in an evolutionary disadvantage?
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