Status Updates From The Moral Animal: Why We Ar...

Using cows/beef in an analogy for genes was a poor choice. Humans select the genes for the marbling when they choose to breed those specific cows to continue to produce that type of meat. I wonder if he meant that these genes are protecting other genes, ones with less marbling? I don't know. Very odd choice.

Women of Darwin's class often spent their early twenties on prominent display, hoping catch a man while in their prime. Men often spent their twentiee as Darwin did-singlemindedly pursuing the sort of professional st ure (and/or money) that might later attract a woman in her prime There was no rush. It was considered natural for a woman to marrya markedly older man." This statement still hold true in todays aswell.

My kind of book given it goes deep and wide and leaves no ideology uncritiqued yet is enhanced by being read with a Spiritual lens the author lacks. Neither a few relied-upon studies having been called into question, nor a few subsequent ones having not supported his suppositions, nor my occasional disagreements negate that there is nary a bangerless page herein.