Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating

Re:Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Fe... by drewrv on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:47PM (#14723170)

I've been thinking of this as a sci-fi concept recently. On Star Trek all the other races have this singular defining trait, vulcans are logical, klingons are warriors, ferengi are greedy. The defining trait of humans is going against their natural impulses. We evolved from violent savage apes yet strive toward peace. Some choose veganism. Others choose celibacy.

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Re:Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Fe... by Fricken on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:58PM (#14723227)

Wasn't Captain Kirk the one always going with his gut instinct? The Vulcans were once an extremely emotional and violent race. Their logical traits are the result of generations of disciplined mastery over their natural impulses.

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Re:Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Fe... by qbrass on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:26PM (#14723905)

McCoy was usually the one making the emotional appeal to the captain for the audience's sake. And humans in general were the emotional ones.

However, Kirk was supposed to be the moderate one that didn't give-way to pure logic or emotion and find the best solution somewhere in between. Which was the moral of the story of the week.

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Re:Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Fe... by drewrv on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:34PM (#14723374)

I suppose so, I was always more of a TNG nerd.

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