Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett

Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-05-05T20:00:00+00:00

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1 Note one important difference between the legacies of Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam: we all, male and female, have mitochondria in our cells, and they all come from our mothers; if you are male, you have a Y-chromosome and got it from your father, whereas virtually all—but not quite all—females have no Y-chromosome at all.

2 Setting logical possibility aside and looking at actual history, we see that there have been men who tried to monopolize the siring in their populations, and apparently sometimes succeeded to an astonishing degree: powerful kings and warriors who took and impregnated hundreds of women. They probably have made a disproportionate contribution to our human gene pool, for better or worse.

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