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To: c.hinton who wrote (233970)	6/21/2007 4:03:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

There are wives and children. It's not a mutually-exclusive effect. You might have heard of drones in beehives. They contribute to the hive, but don't breed. With 1 in 10 homosexuals being born, that leaves plenty of breeding stock. Or 1 in 20, take your pick. The gene pool has the great genes swirling around in it, gradually being selected so the concentration builds. Only occasionally does lots of the right stuff get combined in an individual. But it happens more and more as the dross is filtered out of the gene pool by the merciless and relentless grinding exceeding fine of Darwinian battle, red in tooth and claw, and women finding many males are not worthy of reproduction. It's a boot strapping process. Women would rather die unbred than produce from those they consider inadequate. That's why they are more monogamous than males - the rock star alpha males get more opportunities than the loser males. The women go for them. That's also why the mother of all humans outside Africa emigrated 90,000 years ago but the father of them all arrived only 30,000 years ago. The earlier males died off unfulfilled, usurped by the Johny-come-latelies. That puzzles some people ["don't mothers and fathers have to go together??"] but it's how it works. In genes, there has been a shift. Victory in tribal genocide used to be to mass production and weight of numbers. Now it's weight of brain power. One Ashkenazi nuke wielder can hold off a swarm of barbarians. Military folklore is full of individual stars who held off the barbarians at the gate, the bridge, the pass. Or flew a couple of airliners into the Twin Towers. One housewife with an insecticide spray can defeat hordes of ants. Meanwhile, she picks and chooses the next generation from the many male supplicants, not always carefully, but sometimes is near enough for government work and mass production with statistical resolution of the details. Mqurice