Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
> Would people want to choose mates who look like their parents ... for biological reasons [or] for cultural reasons? <

Diamond's theory opens the door for cultural determination of the
choice of mates. That in turn says that which genes survive to be
passed down to progeny is at least in part determined by the broader
culture, not simply what one's parents look like. That turns
sociobiology on its head, since they'd like to reduce culture to
biology.

-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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