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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (78520)4/19/2000 5:06:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I think you are wrong about animals being primed to reproduce individually. Individuals may all be so primed (but some males don't even try, or stop with a single success showing their reproductive weakness). Social behaviors also moderate or control individual reproductive impulses. It is well-established, I believe, that only the alpha male and alpha female wolf (and dog) living freely in a pack reproduce. Mrs. Thomas relates her female husky murdering the illicit litter of her dingo. There are many other species in which many males and females compete to reproduce, even at the level of the sperm. Only the most vigorous and energetic sperm wins the race to penetrate the human female ovum. In bees, it may take seven or eight male bees to fully fertilize the queen, but there are hundreds in the chase. If there were no prepotent males and widespread polygamy I think evolution would be much slower and might not adapt fast enough for some species to survive. Of course, the tendancy for loose women to let anyone breed with them spreads their genes widely. It seems to me that the tendency of some alpha human males to impregnate every accessible female has an enormous effect of spreading polyprogenitive "royal" genes through the sluttish peasantry.
The royal family, inbred, degenerates. A hearty peasantry enriched with noble genes rises and overthrows the ancien regime.
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