Lainaus The Blank Slate -kirjasta
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How The Mind Works -kirjasta piti hyvin paikkansa, vai mitä sanotte tästä lainauksesta (kirjasta
The Blank Slate, siis):
The logic of their [miehen ja naisen, siis] relationship is rooted in the most fundamental difference between the sexes: not their chromosomes, not their plumbing, but their parental investment. In mammals, the minimal parental investments of a male and a female differ dramatically. A male can get away with a few minutes of copulation and a tablespoon of semen, but a femal carries an offspring for months inside her body and nourishes it before and after it is born. [...] Since it takes one member of each sex to make a baby, access to females is the limiting resource for males in reproduction.
For a male to maximize the number of his descendants, he should mate with as many females as possible; for a female to maximize the number of her descendants, she should mate with the best-quality male available. This explains the two widespread sex differences in many species in the animal kingdom: males compete, females choose; males seek quantity, females quality.
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20.10.2004, 20:39
