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Well, in science there's always the possibility that something we thought we knew gets overturned. You can say the same thing with the bird example. What makes you more comfortable with that than the same concept being applied to human beings?
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I’m not. I do think it’s a false equivalency though.
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You can literally say the same thing about climate change or even gravity
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No you can’t.
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the selfish gene holds up pretty well and is actually the modern orthodoxy
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It holds up great and is a fantastic read. Some of it doesn’t apply to insect behavior though so there was more to the story.
I just want to say I don’t have a human exceptionalist attitude about this.
Now that we’ve mapped the human genome when there’s a claim of sexual preferences and proclivities the next step is isolating the gene. Then a geneticist can tell us when on our evolutionary path did that mutation take place. Until then it’s a big maybe.