No exceptions
When biological bases are used to explain an animal's behavior, the habit and temptation to make an exception with ourselves are great. And not only for those who have a vision of the religious world and regard man as unique. For very different reasons, many of those on the other end of the rope have opted for the same option, attributing only to culture and learning processes, for example, differences in the nature or behavior of men and women. It has become politically erroneous, in some cases, to claim the opposite; to say that we are the result of our evolutionary history and our biological work, as if it were to justify behaviors that in the name of equality and human rights we consider discriminatory.
I don't think it's a lie to defend here. As absurd as rejecting the consequences of the biological-evolutionary nature of human beings is to base our ethical and social values on them. We know the dangers denounced by the abuse of social Darwinism and naturalistic fallacy.
However, in addition to adapting what we are, human biology and human culture have provided us with tools to adapt what we want to be. Wasting tools is not advancing by recognizing and understanding the effects that biology and culture have on ourselves and each other. Psychologist Eduardo Fano clearly says in the inner pages that, despite the adaptations of hundreds of thousands of years, we study the human species as if they had not influenced many of the issues that affect our behavior, and that we ignore the obvious phenomena.
The series of reports "Reasons for sex" of this journal analyzes from the biological and evolutionary point of view some of the characteristics of human behavior: attitudes towards children, infidelity and jealousy, monogamy and polygamy, homosexuality... We talk about the causes of sex and the consequences of being sexually sexuated animals. No exception.
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