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Old 12-02-2006, 07:34 PM
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if the students and faculty of the math and geology departments at the university I attended can be taken as an indication...

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I don't know them, but I'm pretty damn sure they can't. Maybe 1 in 3 for men, and 1 in 8 or so for women, if it was a very good university.

In any case, this isn't a good source for relevant statistic data.
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Old 12-03-2006, 02:51 AM
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I thought this was the case for the last thousands of years.

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Yes indeed, but the more science advances (especially medicine, technology), the more this is true in my opinion.

I think this started mostly with the development of agriculture.

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I have no idea why people say this. How exactly do you figure that natural selection could possibly be derailed?

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Well, it obviously can't. Some people like to point out the difference between fitness to survive in the "natural" world, and fitness to survive (and reproduce) in this "man-made" world that we currently inhabit.
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Old 12-03-2006, 03:31 AM
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Almost every woman I know - many of whom I met at work when we were all young professionals in our 20's - is now a stay-at-home mom. I'm not disrespecting their choice - but there's no doubt in my mind that their decision to stay home is based at least partially on the desire to get out of going to work every day.

I think part of the dilemma is that for many women, motherhood is still the REAL goal of their adult lives - even for those who continue to work. This desire to focus on being nurturing mothers to an infant obviously can interfere with the pursuit of intellectual genius or career ambitions.

In spite of women's liberation, etc. girls are still brought up to be mothers and nurturers first. Men, on the other hand, are expected to provide for their family and achieve success in the working world, and this pressure to succeed leads to more ambition and drive to excel.
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Old 12-03-2006, 09:37 AM
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How exactly do you figure that natural selection could possibly be derailed?

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Because it no longer takes fitter genes to stay alive, and especially not to reproduce.
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