Things don’t have to have a practical benefit to to be driven by natural selection when females, rather then brutal events, are doing the selecting. Quite the reverse in fact.

I am a scientist. I thought Richard Dawkins description of the selfish gene was superb (but I wish he would shut up about religion), the description of an organism as a means of making more copies of DNA is pretty useful for some things. But Roger has a good point about our favorite organisms. But why pick on evolutionary biologists in particular.

When making love, don’t be an evolutionary biologist. Sure. But also don’t be or a marxist historian, or a fund manager, or a conservative columnist. Just be a man.