[lit-ideas] Re: birds
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:20:30 -0400
Good question, Julie. But I'm not, I must admit, altogether clear on how to
answer it. Sex and aggression are so profoundly fundamental to all
vertebrate lives that ruling out their relevance to any relationship seems
as dicey a proposition as reflexively asserting that what seems to us
inappropriate "sexualization" is only ideological.
John
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14479670
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> This is pretty interesting. I'd like to know, though, more about why they
> impose a sexual aspect to these long lasting friendships -- not sure what
> they mean by "monogamous" in the context of birds. In humans, women can be
> best friends through life, sometimes even rooming together -- it's not clear
> to me there's always a sexual element going on there.
>
> Julie Krueger
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