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Old 01-22-2004, 07:19 AM   #105 (permalink)
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point 2: the human species became what it is through rape. 10,000 years ago there was no recreational consentual sex as we know it today. the males of the species took the females whenever and whereever they wanted, by force if necessary.
Where did you read that? I spend a lot of my time reading about human evolutionary history and I have never encountered any academic sources which suggested that the human species became what it is through rape or that there was no consensual sex. (I really do want to know where you heard those statements).

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I think its commonly accepted that there is a survival instinct in our genes that propels us to try to keep the species alive.
Maybe it is commonly accepted among forum posters, but not among evolutionary biologists. Most evolutionary biologists would agree that humans have a survival instinct. Very few would agree that humans have an instinct to preserve the species.

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But I dont personally see how it is any great loss to the universe if homo sapiens sapiens becomes extinct.
I agree.

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