On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:12 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/14/2014 4:51 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >>> 3) You assume that going against your simple reproductive program will >>> cause suffering >>> >>> This is a weird assumption. Consider this: you cannot decide to stop >>> breathing. Your brain literally won't let you. So evolution did not select >>> breathing to be an optional behaviour. But it did select breading to be an >>> optional behaviour. Otherwise there would be a whole lot more rape, just >>> like in most of the animal kingdom. >>> >> >> You are right of course that the human evolutionary 'program' is >> different from that of almost all mammmals. But if it were like other >> mammmals there wouldn't be more rape. There is seldom rape among mammals >> because the female becomes receptive when she ovulates and readily accepts >> males and otherwise she is not sexually attractive to the males. Humans >> and bonobos are unusual among mammals in that females are sexually >> receptive even when not ovulating. This is probably an evolutionary >> adaptation to achieve couple bonding which is useful in raising a child >> that takes many years to become self-sufficient. I recommend the book by >> Jared Diamond "Why is Sex Fun?". >> >> > You are right, of course. I got too carried away in that hyperbole. > Added your recommendation to my reading list. > > Bonobos are very interesting, I've read before about how they display many > of the sexual behaviours that are considered "unnatural" or "deviant" by > our religious friends. > That's why we keep 'em out of zoos. Protect the children from these deviant freaks of nature unholy! :-) PGC > > Thanks > Telmo. > > > >> Brent >> >> >> Why was optional breading selected? We can speculate. It is quite >>> obvious that the "niche" that humans explore is superior adaptation. We are >>> not particularly strong nor particularly resilient, nor can we run >>> particularly fast. But we can adapt very quickly to a wide range of >>> circumstances. At some point there was a choice between >>> optional/non-optional in reproduction. Optional won. You ignore this. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
