[lbo-talk] New Sex drugs

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 28 15:50:25 PDT 2005


Miles Jackson wrote:


>I agree that this is a plausible example of Gould's
>spandrels. As Darwin emphasized and most of his
>modern day acolytes forget, many factors--not just
>evolutionary adaptation!--can explain the existence of
>a trait in a species.

It's like sociobiologists are apostles of intelligent design - there's got to be an evolutionary reason for everything! Sometimes shit just happens, no?

Doug



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