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From: baxter@navajo.UUCP (Ray Baxter)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.men,soc.women,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Rape a reproductive advantage?
Message-ID: <2043@navajo.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 22:48:57 GMT
References: <517@gtx.com> <248@nancy.UUCP>
Reply-To: baxter@navajo.UUCP (Ray Baxter)
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In article <248@nancy.UUCP> straney@msudoc.UUCP (Ronald W. DeBry) writes:
>The last criterion (The trait must be heritable) 
>is the easiest to forget in all the hupla over
>fitness values, and this is the one that human rape clearly
>fails.  Rape is a social, not a genetic problem; so the question
>of reproductive success is moot.
 (Parentheses added).

I would like to see one shred of data which shows that human rape is
not heritable.  It is fine for you to say that it is a social problem,
but you certainly do not know that is not a genetic problem.