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From: victor@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Victor Balaban)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.med,net.bio
Subject: Re: If sodomy, why not incest?
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 17:47:47 EDT
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>>              There are certain genetic considerations between MOTOS
>>incest, but other than that, I don't consider it my place to dictate
>>what people can and can't do.
>
>I've heard this reasoning many times, but never any proof or evidence
>for it. How is this any different, genetically, from the situation in
>herds, or other animal living groups, where the dominant male mates with
>*all* the females in the group, be they related or not? 
>

Actually in herds there is always new genetic mterial coming in because
the new dominant male is often a loner who challenged tthe dominant male
and won.  This is often why young males leave their herds in search of
new ones, preferably one with an old dominant male ready to be toppled.

-- 


                                          Victor Balaban

"Rationalizations can be more important than sex, when's the last time you
went three days without making a rationalization?"
                                                     - David Lee Roth