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288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species

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Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is, you know, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all times. But he knew that natural selection didn't explain everything that we see in nature. And so he came up with this dea of sexual selection, and it wasn't just survival, it was a quest for sex. The idea that females were choosing went down like a lead balloon in victoria, n england. Was really not popular at all,. He was right. Male composition and female choice do drive sexual selection. It's just that what he didn't realize was that female competition, male choice, and a whole host of other forces that are Down to female agency

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