Chapter 10: Sexual Evolution

The main thing I thought about while reading this article was that even though this theory has a lot of merit and does make a lot of sense, it is almost impossible to prove without a shred of doubt. It amazed me the things that science and technology allows us to do, like using pelvic bones to see the birthing patterns of an extinct species, but that alone is not enough to give this theory the evidence it needs to be accepted.

While science and technology can do incredible things to help us understand the past and the nature of the world, there is so much that it cannot do. We cannot, for example, reconstruct the physical appearance of the Neandertal so that we can prove that the males’ penises were smaller than that of modern male humans or the females’ breasts only enlarged when pregnant and nursing. That is, we cannot do it at this point in time. Maybe one day, science and technology will progress so far that we will be able to prove for certain, without any doubt that this theory of sexual evolution, or any kind of evolution, is a fact. Until then, this remains a nice theory that brings up a lot of good points but cannot be proved.