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SEXUAL ATTRACTION: A TEST CASE OF SOCIOBIOLOGICAL THEORY
Author(s) -
Harris H. V. C.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1984.tb00933.x
Subject(s) - sociobiology , attraction , human sexuality , test (biology) , psychology , social psychology , stress (linguistics) , sexual attraction , principal (computer security) , epistemology , sociology , gender studies , ecology , philosophy , biology , computer science , linguistics , operating system
Abstract. A study of the place of human sexuality in religious systems indicates a possible universal stress on sexual attraction. This could be explained by using the theories of Richard Dawkins and other sociobiologists: the philandering male and the coy female express the best strategies for the survival of the “selfish gene.” Closer analysis of four religious systems throws doubt on these theories. In some systems the strategies are contradicted while in others there is stress on cooperative restraint rather than on survival through selfish propagation. The principal objection to the sociobiological approach is its assumption of conflict between the sexes.