Comments on: Vestiges http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/ Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Women Behaving Badly | http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-91298 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:42:37 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-91298 […] motivated by what’s been coded into its instinctual firmware as a result of what’s been evolutionarily beneficial to the survival of the canine species. The operant conditioning is training that dog to perform desired behaviors counter to that […]

]]> By: Macbeth http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-89214 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:14:55 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-89214 “Just because you know the reasons for your behaviors doesn’t grant you a license to engage in them.”

Oh Rollo, such a rational expectation!

]]> By: Male Space | http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-42260 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:01:17 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-42260 […] could go into detail about how men giving each other shit is an evolutionary (and useful) vestige of tribalism and how men would use this “challenging” to ensure the strength and survivability […]

]]> By: boomlinde http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-18137 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:37:58 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-18137 “This preservation of favourable variations, and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.” — Darwin, Charles (1869), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (5th ed.)

]]> By: boomlinde http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-18131 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:02:04 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-18131 Keep writing stupid crap, but at least get your facts straight.

“This preservation of favourable variations, and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.” — Darwin, Charles (1869), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (5th ed.)

]]> By: The Crying Game | http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-16948 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:14:28 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-16948 […] easy to make the association of how this ‘check-the-baby’ dynamic is a vestige of what evolved to make our species so successful; if it didn’t annoy us, more distressed […]

]]> By: YOHAMI http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-16601 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:58:34 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-16601 you change your taste.

]]> By: Simon http://therationalmale.com/2013/02/05/vestiges/comment-page-2/#comment-16599 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:48:32 +0000 http://rationalmale.wordpress.com/?p=2287#comment-16599 I’m a bit late on this post, but I wanted to ask: what if we hate ourselves for understanding the processes behind our behaviours? Something learned cannot be unlearned. This results in un-necessary analysis that affects your perceptions and behaviours albeit being very interesting.

How are we supposed to deal with the disgust we feel towards our species as a result of understanding how they work?

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