the historical attribution of homosexual behavior in animals as "dominance displays"
When you think about it abstractly (i.e., try to ignore your modern tendency to alieve that anything that might make homosexuals look bad must be EVIL!!1!!) this makes a lot more sense than any modern theory I've heard.
I stated that too strongly... come to think of it there are some sexual behaviors that are, in fact, status contests between partners - like in hyenas. It's not as ridiculous of a hypothesis as I made it out to be, and I agree that this is because of my own biases.
That said, I think it's fairly clear that there are a large number of non-reproductive sexual behaviors found in nature which are not dominance contests between partners.
more sense than any modern theory I've heard.
Let me try to remedy that. Here are some hypotheses - not truth claims, just h...
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)