{"id":72852,"date":"2012-07-25T00:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2012-07-25T00:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T08:57:27","slug":"rousseau-vs-descartes-incest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/25\/rousseau-vs-descartes-incest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousseau vs. Descartes &amp; incest"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcapleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/386px-Greta_Schacchi_Cannes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17510\" title=\"386px-Greta_Schacchi_Cannes\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/386px-Greta_Schacchi_Cannes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Greta Scacchi<\/em>, cousin-lover<\/p>\n<p>There has been some discussion in the comments why the posts on inbreeding are getting so much attention. I think this is a milder form of the same sort of curiosity about why young males have a fascination with pornography:<strong> we are obsessed with sex<\/strong>. This is not an arbitrary fascination, nor is it a loss of innocence which may have been avoided. Sex is our <em>raison d&#8217;etre<\/em> as sexual organisms. Evolutionary psychology gets a bad reputation for positing adaptive explanations for everything under the sun, from dancing to migraines.<strong> But, if there is anything which is the target of adaptive constraint and selective pressures, it is the suite of traits which relate to sex and mating in a direction fashion.<\/strong> It is sometimes stated that sex is about power, but the bigger reality is that power\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan\/\">is about sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But reducing human behavior purely to one explanatory framework is too reductive even for me. An individualist framework where singular males and females operate as evolutionary versions of rational\u00a0<em>H. economicus<\/em>, always optimizing fitness through subterfuge and inducement, leaves something to be desired in characterizing the true rich &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Scacchi, cousin-lover<br \/>\nThere has been some discussion in the comments why the posts on inbreeding are getting so much attention. I think this is a milder form of the same sort of curiosity about why young males have a fascination with pornograph&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-evolutionary-psychology","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72970,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852\/revisions\/72970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}