Russ,
It's not OK, but only because my relatives and friends would kill your
relatives and friends if you did. Or, to put the matter more precisely, people
who kill other people tend, when social environments are stable, to have had
fewer offspring than those that don't. Ditto Rapists. Whenever social
environments were unstable (See Death, Hope, and Sex by Jim Chisholm) rapists
and murders did better, so alot of human cognitive and social developmental
apparatus is devoted to figuring out what sort of a situation each individual
is in.
See the review at http://www.behavior.org/journals_bp/2001/amin.pdf.
this is the duplicate of a message I sent to the FRIAM list with the (much too
large) file attached. Apologies to the list manager who should feel free to
kill the version with the attachment.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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