BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Phyllis Mcginley, Cultural Revolution, Vocal Fry Register
24 Nov 2016
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Parenthood, religion could be an important domain of leaving meaning behind, Vertical component of religion: potential for afterlife, created by life as an alternative to parenthood. All delusions: just like leisure, they work for us. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame (accomplishments) or an imagined utopia (religion)- phyllis mcginley. Of the 4000 most accomplished people that lived over the 1150 years b/w 800 bc and 1950, only about 2% were women. Women prevented from doing what they wanted because of patriarchal subjugation, since written history. Not that women couldn"t do great things outside the home, but rather that men couldn"t give birth and had to look for substitutes to leave a legacy. Cultural revolution in the empowerment of women. Darwinian paradox: a product of "failed disfavouring selection"
