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Sex ratio and behavior
alphadominance says:
Buy not the cow when the milk gushes freely.
It seems likely to me that males, and females, vary in their likelihood of wanting and accepting no strings attached sex and putting out respectively.
That is, there will be a range of predilections and a range of types of the opposite sex that different individuals will target.
Of course, in an environment of oversupply of females, those females who are loath to put out will likely do so if the right bait is offered and their willingness to do so will likely increase with age. After all, they have to have sex to have offspring.
In an environment where women are in short supply, it is relatively easy for "chaste" women to police things and ensure that "loose" women do not spoil things for everyone. However, in an environment where women are in oversupply, "chaste" women are under pressure.
A predictor of whether women are in short supply or not would be their average behavior in that regard.
Buy not the cow when the milk gushes freely.
It seems likely to me that males, and females, vary in their likelihood of wanting and accepting no strings attached sex and putting out respectively.
That is, there will be a range of predilections and a range of types of the opposite sex that different individuals will target.
Of course, in an environment of oversupply of females, those females who are loath to put out will likely do so if the right bait is offered and their willingness to do so will likely increase with age. After all, they have to have sex to have offspring.
In an environment where women are in short supply, it is relatively easy for "chaste" women to police things and ensure that "loose" women do not spoil things for everyone. However, in an environment where women are in oversupply, "chaste" women are under pressure.
A predictor of whether women are in short supply or not would be their average behavior in that regard.
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Is it anything more than Muller's rachet?
However, I will buy the book ... rest assured.
However, I will buy the book ... rest assured.
The Secular Right
It is useful to have an understanding of the hardware when talking about a lot of these issues, and it seems to me that all males must have some hardware in their brains for recognizing appropriate targets for sexual activity.
That hardware develops during gestation and can be affected to a certain extent by social pressure as the individual matures.
There are several things that can go wrong with that hardware:
1. It might have faults that cause it to select individuals of the wrong/same sex.
2. It might have faults that cause it to select individuals of the correct/opposite sex but wrong age, either too young or too old.
From the perspective of such individuals their choices of sexual partners are entirely natural, but for some reason, of late we have chosen rather arbitrarily, it seems to me, to accept that one such hardware defect is fine, but others should be excoriated and subject to jail terms and chemical castration and so forth.
I wonder why?
That hardware develops during gestation and can be affected to a certain extent by social pressure as the individual matures.
There are several things that can go wrong with that hardware:
1. It might have faults that cause it to select individuals of the wrong/same sex.
2. It might have faults that cause it to select individuals of the correct/opposite sex but wrong age, either too young or too old.
From the perspective of such individuals their choices of sexual partners are entirely natural, but for some reason, of late we have chosen rather arbitrarily, it seems to me, to accept that one such hardware defect is fine, but others should be excoriated and subject to jail terms and chemical castration and so forth.
I wonder why?
Clever Monkeys
Only available online in the UK for the moment ...
The four culture model of American history
Are scotch-irish those Irish people who prefer Scotch to Brandy, or are they a group of people who are out to scotch the Irish?
Which countries does the NYT cover most and least?
gcochran, I am lead to believe that it is worse than what you say. That, through meddling by Democratic politicians, Iraq signed oil deals with China rather than US oil companies.
Perhaps I am wrong.
Perhaps I am wrong.
Some people better language learners?
Man, wtf? Is this haloscan thing censoring words like the vernacular for rooster?
Every time I enter C O C K it disconnects me.
Every time I enter C O C K it disconnects me.
The Mongol Art of War
PhillyGuy,
Is there any information about the duration over which the bundle of factors including bow development, tactics and organization developed?
I have a feeling that Temujin was one of those rare people who was first to pull together a set of disparate skills and technologies and that he did so in aid of uniting the Mongol tribes (to improve his family's standing and his reproductive success), and then found these to be useful in subjugating neighboring peoples as well.
It is also very interesting to hear from someone who uses both technologies about the limitations of both.
Is there any information about the duration over which the bundle of factors including bow development, tactics and organization developed?
I have a feeling that Temujin was one of those rare people who was first to pull together a set of disparate skills and technologies and that he did so in aid of uniting the Mongol tribes (to improve his family's standing and his reproductive success), and then found these to be useful in subjugating neighboring peoples as well.
It is also very interesting to hear from someone who uses both technologies about the limitations of both.
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