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The Mating Mind, a Game Changer
Sexual selection among human beings, i think, is more important determinant of successful reproduction than natural selection. Women are acting as the gate keepers, and so they are natural selection in some sense. But how can you deny the role of conscious directionality in that? I mean, it is the case that men arrange hierarchies around competence and generosity. Fundamentally, it's not power. Even bloody chimps don't use power, you know, they baboons, they're a bit of a different story.