> On the subject of evolutionary psychology, I understand a new book was
> published recently titled "Born to Rape". The authors present a theory
that
> rape is a genetic adaptation. According to their controversial theory, it
> should be no surprise that rape is a common crime in modern society
because
> our primitive ancestors were often brutish rapists who were likely to have
> fathered many children.

  If such a theory were true, wouldn't we have over populated before the
Neolithic?
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