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From: rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.men,soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <5862@pbhyd.PacBell.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 90 21:38:25 GMT
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Reply-To: rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
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>>we survive by virtue of our rational faculty.
>
>	Surely not only that? Mating is an important part of
>racial survival, but mating seems to have a very necessary
>bit of irrationality about it :-).

I hope you mean "*species* survival".  As to "necessary irrationality",
and disregarding your smiley, I'd say some *rationality* is needed to
stop mating and start making love instead of babies.  Harrumph (:-))
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