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I am a Geneticist by training but have had a broader interest in the social impact of genetics, in part because I myself have a rare genetic condition...

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By Sophia Siedlberg | September 24th 2007 02:45 PM | 4 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
A review of Dr Lonnie W Aarssen's “Some Bold evolutionary predictions for mating in humans”

Quite often papers are published which get slated for being “politically incorrect” I recently witnessed a rather interesting example of that. However when reading papers that acquire this dubious title I find it useful to look at the paper on it’s own merits. Dr Lonnie W. Aarssen’s “Some Bold evolutionary predictions for mating in humans” is an interesting example. My initial impression of the paper is that it simply asserts that human beings are subject to the same mating rules as other primates, and that at some point in the future older social patterns in humans involving marriage and so on would re-assert themselves, because “it is in the genes” However Dr Aarssen’s conclusions are certainly worthy of further debate and have merit.