On 2001.12.08, Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I can easily imagine those females who bred with possessive males
> having more reproductive success. Their men would perhaps be more
> likely to stay by and help raise the larvae if they had a sense of
> ownership.
Reproductive success can be measured in two ways. The way you
suggest (producing offspring which thrives) is definitely desirable
in modern day.
However, purely looking at reproductive success from a Darwinian
standpoint ... those females who bred with any male (non-posessive)
probably had more reproductive success, if you measure reproductive
success as "producing offspring that live long enough to produce
offspring" ...
"Free love" was the government's wag-the-dog way of ensuring
that there would be people around to pay taxes one generation
after the war. Convince those who aren't off to die on foreign
soils to f@#% like bunnies so that there'll be plenty of
taxpayers 18 years later.
-- Dossy
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"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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