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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by porpoisely on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:44AM (#19046105)
If females don't get to choose who they mate with and breed with, how would female selection theory work?

If tribe A conquers tribe B and kills all the males in tribe B and breeds with all the females in tribe B, how exactly is female selection involved here? Or even if the males in tribe B weren't killed but all the resources were taken by males in tribe A, where does female selection apply?

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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by malvosenior on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:15PM (#19047162)
I think your theories are really interesting but there's a hole in this one. Tribe A also has parents. Not all reproduction happens through force. Female selection was probably happening in Tribe A.

The war scenario and arranged marriage mix things (which is one of the reasons what you say is interesting) but I don't think it's so black and white.

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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by antisthenes on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:15PM (#19047159)
You created a single strawman scenario where female selection doesn't exist.

This doesn't invalidate literally hundreds of other possibilities where it could exist. Are you really serious about this right now? Do you not see flaws in the argument you constructed?

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