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To: j g cordes who wrote (15920)	1/20/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<I would like to see some controlled experiments of how men would respond versus women to an environment where male competitors were out of the picture and there were essentially unlimited females. A. how would the females act towards one another.. ie would they butt heads and posture for wolf alfa female status or organize a lottery. Would that one man become a single dominant woman's reproduction property or would he just be allowed to cruise.> I think that women are hard-wired to survive. That's why we choose men who will protect us and provide for us well, which in modern times means money, but used to mean land ownership and physical prowess. Even though we may not rationally be planning to have children, the code for that behavior is in the primitive brains of women who survived. You know, Darwinian principles. So if the situation arose where there was only man and unlimited women, we would probably act very rationally and cooperatively to propogate the species, and happily share the man, using his sperm for its highest purpose--building a strong population. This is, however, a very difficult situation played out over several generations, since in the first generation of children all of them would be related. Interestingly enough, there were experiments in Switzerland last year which show that on a smell/pheremone level, the reason that certain men and women are attracted to each other is that they are as genetically UNrelated to each other in the gene pool as is possible. So I wonder how much all the first generation children would really be attracted to each other, sexually. A lot of very smelly t-shirts were used in that study, incidentally. The men wore them for a LONG time, and then the women smelled them, indicating on a scale which smells they were most, and least, attracted to.