Hi again everywho.
Yeah I do kick around places.
Now that there's been a chance to fester under there let's review, shall we?
This time i'll start with dependence again.
First, dependence is a style of reproduction.
Reproduction in mammals is of course, sexual so that makes dependence a sexual expression.
As I said previously, many times, do a name search,here, the styles of sexual expression are-
mate selection or competitive sexual selection (please refer to Darwin on this), libidinism or eroticism, reproduction and dependence.
It took me a long time to stop trying to make a distinction between dependence and sexual expression but eventualy i had to include dependence as a stylye of sexual expression.
But, just as there are distinct components of the other sexually motivated drive expressions, dependence is a distinct drive expression.
You should regard the evolutionary influence of dependence as more significant than competitive sexual selection.
it works like this-
the duration of the primary, neonatal/juevenile period of dependence cannot exceed the capacity of the parental, or secondary dependence, response.
The influence of such a behavioral system upon the repreoductive habits of a species is profound.
I refer to this behavioral dependence as bimodal. The primary expression, by the neonate, elicits the secondary expression, by the parent.
The success of the primary expression in commanding the parental response is an absolute issue of mortality for the neonate.
And, since I won't be able to get back here till after the turkey squaks, (I won't be having any.) Just remember, it takes a big step away from the egocentrist universe to appreciate the trends of evolution.
Thangs allott! Time ta growed hup!