[lbo-talk] Don't Mess With Mom

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jun 26 19:00:44 PDT 2004


Miles Jackson wrote:
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> >From my own experience teaching and reading people's opinions online,
> I'd say naive genetic determinism is alive and well. I wish your
> statement above in caps were true, but it's not.
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A year or two ago there was a long thread on this list in which quite a few posters hung tenaciously to the idea that there was an evolutionary reason for the "trophy wife" phenomena. It was quite disgraceful. One of the features of widespread beliefs of this sort is unawareness of what a "trait" is. (Richard Levins discussed this briefly some time ago on the Science for the People list.) Yesterday's science column in the WSJ discussed Just-so stories.

Carrol


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