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From: ronse@prlb2.UUCP (Christian Ronse)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: More on Forced Copulation
Summary: No selective advantage when living in a society
Message-ID: <408@prlb2.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 08:44:55 GMT
References: <1988Jan19.094531.8703@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels
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In article <1988Jan19.094531.8703@utzoo.uucp>, rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
writes:
> In humans females sometimes become pregnant as a consequence of rape.  Thus,
> it is potentially selectively advantageous for males to rape.  

Everybody seems to forget that our species lives in a social environment, not
in wilderness. In all societies rape is severely punished, by prison, banning,
or even by death. To be caught and emprisonned or killed is not a selective
advantages.

Since we live in society, genetic features which conform better to social life
are advantaged by `natural' (now social) selection. For example, West
Europeans have raised cows for milk during thousands of years, and they have a
gene which allows them to digest lactose after infanthood. Japaneses have not
done it, and they lack this gene. Don't give milk or cheese to a Japanese.

Christian Ronse		maldoror@prlb2.UUCP
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