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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (52008)6/29/2002 10:33:50 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I had not accused you of assuming<g>, but I suppose the implication was there. I do not believe in that sort of fine tuning with respect to the genetic platform. I read most of Robert Wright's speculations on such matters when first published in the New Republic, before collected and polished as a book, and found them dreadfully unconvincing........



To: epicure who wrote (52008)6/29/2002 10:34:34 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
whatever set of genes might allow a person to distance themselves from their offspring for their own benefit) may be something that was selected for at some point.

Seems to work for animals, er, I mean lesser animals.


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