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From: anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Ducks, pheromones, humans, (rape)
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:52:48 EDT
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Parallels betwen human and (other) animal
behaviour are dangerously misleading...

It is not relevant that ducks 'rape'.... humans
are not sensitive to pheromones, whereas ducks
are.  This basic chemical difference makes duck
copulation (and many other behavioural traits in
most other animals) a very poor model for human
behaviour.

It's no use looking to the Animal Kingdom for
excuses for rape.