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JML's avatar

I know I'm years late with this reply but I just feel a strong need to add my two cents. Lions and gorillas have a polygenous mating system. They are not closely related to the cubs they kill. Humans live in larger, multi-male social groups where communal raising of children just makes more sense. However, there are many ancient stories of conquering male tribesmen killing all the males of a rival tribe (including children) and preserving the females for reproduction.

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Um...where is the suggestion that you are 'emotionally unstable and irrational'? Describing someone as giving an 'emotional response' is hardly the same thing.

As a qualified, experienced scientist (now retired) I have no problem with interpreting material in a scientific manner. I can also spot a response based on personal values and wished-for-outcomes several light years away.

You want to feel that the Sex at Dawn writers portray 'good science'. You want to believe their vision of the world. By all means do so. But having a personal bias does not help scientific method. I have no vested interest in whether the world view they represent is 'correct' or not. My life - and that of millions of others - will go on just the same.

So what if there are many differences between men and women? Each individual person on the planet is vastly different to each other person. Each of us in unique. To say that the main difference between two human beings is that one is male and one is female ( not forgetting the other variations, of course) is facile. There are many other things that separate us. I probably have more in common with my closest male friends than I do with some random woman walking down the street.

Biology is not destiny. It never was.

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