Trophy Wives & the human genome

[Rob Schaap]

>Re some nonsense on this list a year or so ago.
>
>Of the 10,000 genes more than roundworms that humans have, I wonder how
>many of them are devoted to establishing a tendency in older males to
>mate with teenagers? Or maybe roundworms were already doing that. And it
>probably takes several hundred genes to evolve the tendency of
>intellectuals to develop theories of human society out of a vaguely
>remembered paragraph from a high-school biology text.
>
>Carrol

That'd be your be-a-complete-fuckwit gene going off, I expect, Carrol.  Or
mebbe a complex of genes intermeshed in a complex pattern thankfully
confined to the very few, producing a pungent be-a-complete-fuckwit protein
soup?  Or mebbe it has nothing to do with genes, and you're deliberately
and wilfully a fuckwit?  Who among us can know, eh?

Guess that's what I might have meant when I wrote "I THINK NATURAL
TENDENCIES ARE AT PLAY IN THE ENSEMBLE OF HUMAN RELATIONS.  Just because I
don't know exactly how, isn't the point.  I just want nothing to do with
ideology that implicitly reckons it knows it all, or that correct discourse
can fix it all."

I never thought 'The Book Of Life' would have anything to do with
confirming or contradicting that.

Did suspect some would go waaay too far with what would there be writ,
though.  Not at all surprised to see you're one of 'em.

Warm regards,
Rob.