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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Avoiding Anthropomorphism
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:13:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:13:25 1985
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> > Seems to me that in a great number of species, sex is associated with force
> > and violence (including killing of mates). There are really very few human
> > behaviors (language may be one) that are unique to Homo sapiens.
> 
> 	I don't want to carry this digression too much further, but I'd like to
> make one point:  If humans aren't doing it, it's not human behavior.  It's an
> all-too-common mistake to attribute human emotions and motivations to animal
> behavior.  Let's avoid making that mistake.

It's also a mistake to assume that human motivations are different than
animal ones. 

If the original poster had left out the unnecessary adjective "human", the
posting would have been correct.

					Jeff Winslow