Date: 11 Feb 1999 20:54:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Re: Darwin and Fascism



Hi Dave,

> >One of the reasons for *the myth* of the "Survival of the fittest"
> >as the  lonely princip of nature is an error by Darwin himself:
> >The female isn't a- sexuell and monogam.
>
> Who said she was ?

Edward O. Wilson, biologist, in his last book "The Whole of Knowledge",
Steven Pinker in his book "How a Thought Come Into Beeing In a Brain"
(Sorry, German titles!) and by all appearance Charles Darwin.
>
> If you think he did, can you quote where Darwin
> is supposed to have said this ?

Der Spiegel, No.5, 01.02.1999 -- Science section: in the essay by Rafaela  
von Bredow (see page 160 -- 162): quotation: "The majority of female isn't  
much burden with any kind of sexual feelings." -- Charles Darwin about the  
"prissy female".
>
> >The theory who base on Darwin say that
> >every female seek to have sex with  the alpa-male
> >of a horde and live monogam with him;
>
> Which "theory who base on Darwin" are
> you talking about ?

I doesn't know the name of this theory, but this are the
theorists who speak for the theory abowe and who I know:

Edward O. Wilson,
Steven Pinker,
Robert Boyed and Joan Silk in
"How Humans evolved".

I doesn't think that I have missunderstood the "Survival of the fittest":  
Nobody real know the future of evolution. Therefore nobody could say which  
real characteristic of an specie can be in the future of evolution a fit  
pecuilarity.

Sometimes is a weak characteristic of an specie more fit for survival than  
a strong point of characteristic -- like the knots of a tree who going  
with the wind and standing not against the wind. Weakness of an specie  
could contain more developmental chances for survival than strong points  
of characteristic and adaptability.

We should be aware of the fact that all theories about the nature of  
nature ever since the start of human history represent only the given  
prejudices and notions of the societies, in which the theorists live --  
the social reality, which is the only model for their imaginations. So in  
an patriarchal society most of theorists imaginate that in nature and  
society the female haven't the same lust as male, because the human female  
in their experience is oppressed enough to be prissy and monogam.

Nico




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