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| 5 | 360 | View more quotes about caught">Caught women would have been led back to the caves, to suffer the indignities of impregnation by their captors, being forced to reproduce their kind. |
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| 5 | 357 | Then I realized how foolish this was, to so personalize nature, to ascribe to the cruel, blind processes of the world deliberate intentions. |
| 5 | 358 | Rather it had been the selections of nature which had determined this. |
| 5 | 359 | Women who had escaped men would have been lost to the gene pool. |
| 5 | 360 | Caught women would have been led back to the caves, to suffer the indignities of impregnation by their captors, being forced to reproduce their kind. |
| 5 | 361 | Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women. |
| 5 | 362 | Yet matters are far more complicated than these considerations suggest. |
| 5 | 363 | For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and not for its inside as well, that only matters such as external configuration would have a bearing on its survival or desirability and not its dispositions to respond in certain ways. |