Titlebook: Did Darwin Get It Right?; Essays on Games, Sex John Maynard Smith Book 1988 John Maynard Smith 1988 Charles Darwin.Darwin.behavior.biology.

objection

Science, Ideology and Mythnated “Gayness” millions of years ago?’, by Don Smith. The pamphlet points to a genuine problem; the prevalence of sexually ambiguous behaviour in our species is not understood, and is certainly not something that would be predicted from Darwinian theory. Smith’s motive for writing the pamphlet was

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难取悦

Biology and the Behaviour of Mane problem with prejudices, but he tries harder and more successfully than most to rise above them. Prejudices are inevitable. It is natural for geneticists and evolutionary biologists to hope that their disciplines will throw new light on the human condition, and equally natural for social scientist

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Tinkeringtheir flexible thumb and the remaining fingers. But how can a panda have an opposable thumb, when in bears the thumb lies parallel to the fingers, and inseparable from them? In fact, the panda does not have a proper thumb at all: it has five parallel digits just like other bears. The apparent ‘thumb

Infelicity

Boy or Girlicence of God: ‘for by this means it is provided, that the species may never fail, nor perish, since every male may have its female, and of a proportionable age.’ But while that might do for man, it will hardly do for those many species in which there is no monogamous pair bond and no parental care,

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Genes and Memesy anyone prepared to make a serious effort. . was unusual in that, although written as a popular account, it made an original contribution to biology. Further, the contribution itself was of an unusual kind. Unlike David Lack’s classic . — also an original contribution in popular form — . reports no