[ExI] Stone age intuition was medical power of attorney

spike spike66 at att.net
Mon Dec 8 00:02:18 UTC 2014


>... On Behalf Of BillK
Subject: Re: [ExI] Stone age intuition was medical power of attorney

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Keith Henson  wrote:
>>... But you really need the right model to think about evolved traits...

>...Hmmm.   It appears that in the US about 20% of women remain childless.
This seems to be rather a large percentage if they have evolved from genes
to have as many children as possible.  Perhaps genes are not the only driver
of human behaviour?  BillK
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For most of human history, a woman's desire to have children was nearly
irrelevant.  Perhaps more relevant would be a woman's desire to copulate.
Even then, her desires may have been mostly irrelevant until the last dozen
centuries and only applicable in a portion of the world's human population.

spike




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