Re: Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"

From: Paul Burridge (pb_at_notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:00:49 +0100

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:34:28 -0700, Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:

>
>Genome <genome@nothere.net> says...
>
>>> "One of the principle understandings with the theory gained is the
>>> explanations of why the behavior of men and women are fundamentally
>>> different. Why have codes of conduct developed that are decidedly
>>> asymmetrical? How has culture evolved and why dose much of it appear
>>> to have with no apparent biological evolutionary advantage?"
>>
>>One of the principle results of the theory presented is the
>>explanation of why the behavior of men and women are fundamentally
>>different. Why have codes of conduct developed that are decidedly
>>asymmetrical? How has culture evolved and why does much of it appear
>>to have with no apparent biological evolutionary advantage?
>
>"This theory examines the fundamental differences between men
>and women. Why do we seem to have asymmetrical codes of conduct?
>Why do we behave in ways which appear to have no evolutionary
>advantage?"
>
>(This is still flawed; it jumps from talking about gender differences
>to talking about culture and evolution in mid-stream. Alas, I cannot
>compose a paragraph that corrects this flaw without a better
>understanding of what the author is trying to convey.)

I know what Kev's trying to say, but only thanks to having read 'The
Mating Mind' and 'Brain Sex' - to name the two most appropriate works
on the subject. But had I not, I'd have no clue as to WTF he was on
about. The paragraph cannot readily be corrected without tearing it up
and starting from scratch. 

-- 
"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

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