To: decimon
Blame it on maternal love. Good nurture can keep the runts alive, even breed the runts, plowing undesirable traits back into the gene pool. It’s anti-darwinian I tell you. The rationalist Athenians would have none of that. They would expose sickly babies and probably a wide gamut of inconvenient whelps to the elements for the good of the state.
9 posted on
03/27/2011 1:13:44 PM PDT by
Calusa
(The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
To: Calusa
Due to “civilized” modifications to naturally-occurring Darwinism, I believe that de-evolution is taking place.
10 posted on
03/27/2011 2:24:00 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Calusa
That was the Spartans who tossed their defective infants (the boys anyway) off the cliff.
15 posted on
03/27/2011 6:04:03 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Calusa
......The rationalist Athenians would have none of that..... I believe you mean the Spartans, don't you?
19 posted on
03/27/2011 6:29:39 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: Calusa
The Athenians might have exposed “imperfect” babies but they exposed unwanted females too...
Which is why that perderasty was so popular in ancient Athens: they lacked enough girls to go around.
24 posted on
03/27/2011 8:24:32 PM PDT by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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