Buss emphasizes the role of males and females in mate selection and asserts in later chapters that much has gone unchanged, "it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit would have suffered selectively on the mating market. ... Mutations in higher primates that happen to be advantageous for seeing young through to independence have resulted in what we call Homo sapiens. DNA does not care if the individual lives or dies, or bears young. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se...

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The birth rates and death rates have been controlled because new people are "decanted" in a laboratory instead of being born and are then conditioned to die at the age of sixty. When a person dies they are cremated and the phosphorus from their bodies is recovered-more than a kilo and a half per adult corpse-and is used to make plants grow. One of the slogans the citizens of the World State are conditioned with is: "Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we"re dead" (57). ... In the chapter entitled "Quantity, Quality, Morality" of Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxl...

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