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#1 11/2/09 9:46 am
Deviation is the NORM
Nice article from 2006 by a transgendered biologist:
"Roughgarden remains defiant. “I think many scientists discount me because of who I am. They assume that I can’t be objective, that I’ve got some bias or hidden LGBT agenda. But I’m just trying to understand the data. At this point, we have thousands of species that deviate from the standard account of Darwinian sexual selection. So we get all these special case exemptions, and we end up downplaying whatever facts don’t fit. The theory is becoming Ptolemaic. It clearly has the trajectory of a hypothesis in trouble.”"
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article … l_kingdom/
Edit: TLTDR but totally worth the time spent...
Last edited by Cin (11/2/09 9:48 am)
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#2 11/2/09 10:05 am
Re: Deviation is the NORM
"At last count, over 450 different vertebrate species could be beheaded in Saudi Arabia. " lol...
Oh, i certainly think we need to more deeply examine the concept of sexual selection... i dont think its WRONG, but i DO think its been glossed over a bit. Sexuality is DAMN complex for even 'simple' species.
good article.
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