Nick Arnett wrote: > >> And lesbians have a huge advantage in selection: they select the >> father of their daughters based on logical criteria, while hetero >> women chose based on "love" [or hormones, etc]. So, the daughters >> of lesbians will have a competitive advantage over the daughters >> of non-lesbians. > > Do we really know that logic has evolutionary advantages over > emotion? > Yes. Selection by emotion evolved to chose traits that were advantageous for our caveman ancestors, like bullying power or capacity for deceit.
> I imagine that perhaps the mix of the two has advantages > over either one, given that's how things have turned out so far. > Have they? > And we have quite a variety of dominance throughout the human > population and among cultures, nations and other subgroups. > > It isn't sensible or kind to compare logic and emotion! At least > that's what I think... and feel... ;-) > :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
