Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!eirikur From: eirikur@amber.DEC (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Nature and Nurture Message-ID: <190@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 13:30:23 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.190 Posted: Fri Jan 11 13:30:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:09:59 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 18 > 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. To: RHEA::DECWRL::"NET.SINGLES"