06.28.09
Rape, theory, and the Darwin idiot
Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around?
The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves.
Sharon Begley at Newsweek takes on sociobiology, …evolutionary psychology.
Evolutionary seem unable to shake the rape thesis as it resurfaces in the limited conceptual mindset.
The question is simple: the rape factor can generate microevolution, and microevolutionary deviation, but not evolution.
This simple point is apparently too complicated for sociobiologists, and certainly their theory cannot handle the issue/.
This is a classic example of the Oedipus factor: tell the public that rape is a factor in evolution, and the rape factor enters into non-linear interaction with the theory.
Idiot!
Among scientists at the university of New Mexico that spring, rape was in the air. One of the professors, biologist Randy Thornhill, had just coauthored A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, which argued that rape is (in the vernacular of evolutionary biology) an adaptation, a trait encoded by genes that confers an advantage on anyone who possesses them. Back in the late Pleistocene epoch 100,000 years ago, the 2000 book contended, men who carried rape genes had a reproductive and evolutionary edge over men who did not: they sired children not only with willing mates, but also with unwilling ones, allowing them to leave more offspring (also carrying rape genes) who were similarly more likely to survive and reproduce, unto the nth generation. That would be us. And that is why we carry rape genes today. The family trees of prehistoric men lacking rape genes petered out.
Heresiarch said,
July 2, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Applying sociobiological thinking to human societies is a perilous undertaking. But the sociobiology of the New World Order must be revealed!!