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The anthropologist Laura Betzig, surveying these early civilizations, has rendered the Darwinian opinion that politics has often been "little more than reproductive competition"--men using power to better spread their genes. The Aztec King Nezahualpilli had more than 100 children, as did Ramses II of Egypt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Politics Made Me Do It | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

The answer from evolutionary psychology is that men are still saddled with urges that evolved in our precontraceptive hunter-gatherer past. More sex with more females meant more offspring, so genes giving males a thirst for sex with a variety of partners (especially young, hence quite fertile, partners) flourished. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Politics Made Me Do It | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

But in the charts which list categories ranging from donor height to "occupation or major" there is no column reserved for college affiliation. Still, I've got a lingering feeling that if the California Cryobank is going to go through the trouble of attracting students at elite coastal colleges as...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Harvard Babies | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: Human clones bad, cow clones with human genes good. That was the word from Washington Wednesday, as the FDA promised to shut down anyone who tries to clone people without permission -- while the birth of bovine duplicates on a Texas ranch passed without incident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clone Star State | 1/20/1998 | See Source »

Approval is, of course, highly unlikely, and not only because Seed has no previous experience in the area. For doctors James Robl and Steven Stice and all the boys at the Ultimate Genetics ranch, however, cloning is a matter of fact. While cloned calves Charlie and George don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clone Star State | 1/20/1998 | See Source »

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