Science vs. Culture

I am sorry that I am going to talk about class again but I just really cannot get my head around some of the things we talked about. Humans have been evolving from our most primitive state for around like 2.2 million years. The modern Homo Sapiens have been around and evolving for like 250,000 years. It just seems to me it is IMPOSSIBLE for culture to have such a large impact on psychological things that humans partake in. For example the parental investment thing. The only logical thing that I could think of that might change the way women are "picky" is the modern scientific invention of birth control and the fact that it may change some hormones. Aside from that, women can be pretty sure they are not going to be pregnant and so I feel as though that might change the "pickiness". But when choosing someone that you are going to bear children with, the fact that we do not want for food is a really recent invention. Compared to 250,000 years. And so, the fact that a woman will naturally want to pick a mate that gives her offspring a better chance to survive is natural.

Then we got into the discussion of whether the humans only reason for being on earth is to reproduce, be a grandparent, then die. I mean that is a really negative way to look at things. But when it comes down too it, there really is no species on earth that is going to breed itself out of existence. Then we went on to talk about how, if a woman really wants to go get married, a woman can easily go out and get married without much dificulty. Well, I think the economist game theory here kind of comes into play. Women can get a man because, ultimately, other women will take other men and eventually, I would venture to say, all there would be a man for the women who is looking. After this post, I am going to try to write a lot more about the readings, but sometimes I feel as though I have my own thoughts about class that I want to get out in this blog because it is sort of easier to post here than to bring up some ideas in class. And I figure it is ok because I write a lot more than a lot of people about the class and try to actually reason some of the stuff out. Also, its hard to justify some of my opinions with the readings with get, although there are some that help. (Side note: Evangelical Christian notions are absurd...)