Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 363 | For, in the intricacies, and interplay of View more quotes about both">both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and not for its inside as well, that only matters such as external configuration would have a bearing on its survival or desirability and not its dispositions to respond in certain ways. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 360 | Caught women would have been led back to the caves, to suffer the indignities of impregnation by their captors, being forced to reproduce their kind. |
| 5 | 361 | Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women. |
| 5 | 362 | Yet matters are far more complicated than these considerations suggest. |
| 5 | 363 | For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and not for its inside as well, that only matters such as external configuration would have a bearing on its survival or desirability and not its dispositions to respond in certain ways. |
| 5 | 364 | Surely the same evolution which has selected for the fangs of the lion and the speed of the gazelle has selected as well for the disposition to hunt and the disposition to flight, that has selected for the strength of the male and the weakness of the female has selected as well for the disposition to conquer and the disposition to surrender. |
| 5 | 365 | We are, to a large extent, one supposes, the products of environments, but it is well to remember that the maximum, shaping environments in which our nature was stabilized and forged are ancient ones; the sense in which environment determines endowment is the sense in which it determines which endowments are to be perpetuated. |
| 5 | 366 | With misery I suddenly realized my genetic heritage was that of a type which could be caught by men. |
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Caught women would have been led back to the caves, to suffer the indignities of impregnation by their captors, being forced to reproduce their kind.
Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women.
Yet matters are far more complicated than these considerations suggest.
For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and not for its inside as well, that only matters such as external configuration would have a bearing on its survival or desirability and not its dispositions to respond in certain ways.
Surely the same evolution which has selected for the fangs of the lion and the speed of the gazelle has selected as well for the disposition to hunt and the disposition to flight, that has selected for the strength of the male and the weakness of the female has selected as well for the disposition to conquer and the disposition to surrender.
We are, to a large extent, one supposes, the products of environments, but it is well to remember that the maximum, shaping environments in which our nature was stabilized and forged are ancient ones; the sense in which environment determines endowment is the sense in which it determines which endowments are to be perpetuated.
With misery I suddenly realized my genetic heritage was that of a type which could be caught by men.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)