Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts it, "Man is by nature promiscuous, but works hard in the opposite direction." How then did the family structure evolve? The answer, suggest the ethologists, has a great deal to do with the uncertain history of the development of man's only major biological specialization-his brain. From a scratch start with the simians, this marvelous cultural device grew threefold in man in one million years-an evolutionary rate of unprecedented rapidity. Asks Fox: "Did the growth of the brain lead to the capacity for greater social complexity, or vice versa...
Gene Pool. Had early man been naturally monogamous, evolution might not have favored intelligence and the dramatic expansion of the brain. "If every male had been allowed the opportunity to contribute equally to the gene pool," writes Fox, "then we might have been forever stuck as Homo stupidus." He and others, notably Washburn and British Ethologist Michael Chance, have devised theories for explaining how the banished, peripheral males might eventually win their spurs...
...aggression; feelings about status and personal wellbeing; group loyalty; conscience and guilt; sensitivity to incestuous impulses; identification with and rebellion against the older generation; possessiveness over females and sexual jealousy; the desire for variety in sex life-all these are part and parcel of the evolution of the brain...
...least two years, and probably more, isolated groups in Cambridge have talked about mechanisms to bring people together, to admit a loneliness which is perhaps central to the phenomenon of having a good brain, and then to move beyond it. If SDS were clever, if the CRIMSON and the other publications were serious, if the clubs had a sense of humor, some combined assault might be made on the Administration for a center, a place where people could come and be. Where ego-tripping would be the only taboo. Where skills and ideas would be shared among friends. Where...
...Gloria found her medium. Finally, she could write freely on sociology and politics. Says Felker breathlessly and in terms appropriate to a sort of junior Mary McCarthy or a Colette reborn: "She is a modern woman, independent and activist, a beautiful, intelligent, with-it, extraordinarily well-informed, first-class brain." When she practices instant sociology, the first-class brain slips occasionally. Her recent "Notes on the New Marriage" between dominating women and homosexual men contained a fascinating idea, but was flawed by superficiality and sweeping overstatements ("In the land of camp and Conspicuously-Elaborate Consumption, the New Marrieds reign...