Human Pride

Although as I read The Selfish Gene I feel a little more and more selfish every time, I think that the human species is good in some things too. I have undoubtedly found much more selfish behaviors than altruistic behaviors in our species. However, in this chapter we are mentioned some things about The Battle of Sexes. Not only on animal species but on our own specie as well. Humans must be the specie with the best division of papers. However, women still seem to have a more important paper in our existance than men. They usually take care of children, although not always. They also take care of most of their education (usually), and even though we could say that it's men who do the working, this is in many cases not true. Many mothers work as well, and they dedicate to their children anyways. However, in the hardest parts of child raise mothers usually quit their jobs to be able to dedicate better to their kids. Even with this behavior, which indicates that women are more "Important", the papers are very well distributed, because mostly in the animal kingdom (excluding humans, of course), fathers abandon their offsprings even before they are born, knowing that the mother will take care of the baby because that is what her instinct tells her. She will not allow the baby to die because it carries part of her genes as well, and the male knows that, so he takes advantage. The thing is, fathers can just leave because it's the women who carry the baby before it is born. The mother can't get rid of the baby until after it is born, unless she aborts, which is something only human females do voluntarily. In the human world, although this still happens, it is much less common, and almost always the kids are distributed equally between both parents. Even when the male leaves the female or viceversa, their relationship to the son or daughter remains the same. Divorced parents may hate each other but their relation towards their offsprings almost always remains the same. That's why I think human behavior is best, although probably I would think peacock behavior was best if I was one.