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From: eirikur@amber.DEC (Eirikur Hallgrimsson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Nature and Nurture
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 13:30:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 13:30:23 1985
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> The average woman has more eggs per ovary than she could *ever*
> use in a lifetime.  Weak argument, Al.
> 
> Dina Street
> {ucbvax\!ucbtopaz\!dina}

	He has his rationale wrong, but his sociobiology right.  The total
thermodynamic investment in physical reproduction is much less for males.
Now, it takes a capital 'S' Sociobiologist to say that this means that males
experience selection pressure toward being profligate, but I'll at least say
that this is information that shouldn't totally be ignored.

	Eirikur

...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!eirikur

Posted:	Fri 11-Jan-1985 13:30 Marlborough uncorrected time.
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