CHAPTER IV 



SEX SPECIALIZATION AND GROUP SURVIVAL 



Adaptation and specialization ; Reproduction a group not 

 an individual problem ; Conflict between specialization 

 and adaptation ; Intelligence makes for economy in 

 adjustment to environment ; Reproduction, not pro- 

 duction, the chief factor in the sex problem. 



From the facts briefly stated in the preceding 

 chapters it is quite evident that the general 

 superiority of man over woman or vice versa 

 cannot be proven by biology. Such an idea 

 arises from a careless and unscientific use of 

 language. Superiority is a term which, when 

 used to express the rather exact ideas of biology, 

 is employed in a carefully limited and specific, 

 not in a general, sense. That is, superiority, 

 even if an apparently general idea like survival 

 value is referred to, always implies a given, 

 understood environment where such is not 

 specifically mentioned. Wolves, for example, 

 might be found to possess superior chances for 

 survival over foxes, beaver or partridges in a 

 given environment. A biologist w^ould probably 

 use more exact and less ambiguous terms to 

 express such a fact, and say that wolves were 



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