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Originally Posted by enorbet2
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Thanks, interesting, well researched article.
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… the male is the more active member in the courtship of the sexes. The female, on the other hand, with the rarest exceptions, is less eager than the male…. she is coy, and may often be seen endeavouring for a long time to escape from the male…. the female, though comparatively passive, generally exerts some choice and accepts one male in preference to others…. The exertion of some choice on the part of the female seems a law almost as general as the eagerness of the male. (Darwin, 1998: 229-230)
Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. (Darwin, 1898: 576-577)
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman - whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. (Darwin, 1898: 584)
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Only because
she wants you, and lets you, think that Mr. D !
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In her book The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man (1893), Gamble argued that evolution proved female superiority.
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It seems to me that the
female line gets to pass on
her genetic package (mitocondrial DNA) virtually unchanged. This, surely, puts
her in a position of biological superiority?
It would be nice to read the full paper.
The author does need to brush up on Epigenetics and Lamark.
