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"The Acquired Immune System: A Vantage from Beneath", Hedrick 2004 (immune systems as parasites; excerpts)
I absolutely loved this. The concept of the adaptive immune system as something that gives the ability to get a slight advantage over your conspecifics, at the expense of selecting your pathogens to be more virulent such that loss of the adaptive system becomes fatal, reminds me forcefully of all sorts of things in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome structure. Things that happen because they can and then get locked in place by other things built on top of them even though they themselves are harmful, or sheer selfish elements. Like poison/antidote pairs of genes in bacteria that stick around even though they increase average generation time because fluctuations in the levels of the two make a small fraction of bacteria grow extra slowly and be stress-resistant, or the evolution of the spliceosome to make sure self-splicing introns always leave leading to vertebrate genes that are 90% spliceosome-requiring introns, or the sheer abundance of transposons that make up more than half of our genomes...
Theology is very easily observable.
Really, can you show me where?
Men are physically stronger than women.
Without modern science, paternity cannot be observed, only enforced (see (1)).
You left out a few important ones:
3. A man can potentially impregnate many women.
4. Having a man to help raise a woman's children greatly increases their prospects (this is the reason your (2) matters).
5. Unlike his sperm, a man's attention is a rather limited resource.
So, women would prefer to have children by an alpha male. They would also prefer to find a beta male to help raise them (they would like even more to have the alpha male raise them but see (5)). Men don't what to raise children that aren't theirs.
Having a man to help raise a woman's children greatly increases their prospects
This is no longer true in countries where women can earn their own living.
So, women would prefer [...]
Don't generalize. Women are individuals, not a monolithic bloc.
Men don't what to raise children that aren't theirs.
Again, don't generalize. I'd much rather adopt an orphan than increase the amount of living people, all the while knowing my genes would much rather be copied. I don't fear my moral inclinations will be outbred; I can just teach them to my adopted childre...
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