<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From an EP standpoint, none of this would be unexpected.  People</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">without interest in the opposite sex don't usually contribute genes to</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">the next generation.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Keith</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">This could mean that homosexuality should have died out  long ago if it was strictly genetic, right?  I have been pondering women's breasts (again) and have always wondered why we have such an obsession with them. (Freud thought that it was because we got weaned too early and developed a fixation on them - nah).  Could EP explain that this is Nature's way of pointing men at the right sex objects for making babies?   bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:57 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Spike wrote:<br>
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> Keith, I found the whole episode very interesting because of the fallout.<br>
<br>
> The sociology department had spoken of ethical experimentation, but it<br>
wasn't until after the students were not only the test subjects themselves,<br>
they were unwitting test subjects.  With recorded footage of themselves<br>
doing the boob maneuver, they were PISSED!<br>
<br>
>From an EP standpoint, none of this would be unexpected.  People<br>
without interest in the opposite sex don't usually contribute genes to<br>
the next generation.<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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