proclivity QT A scientist reports today that 25 years of observing chimpanzees in the wild does not support the long held supposition that males, given the ready availability of both meat and sex, would almost always choose sex. It turns out that males almost always prefer partaking of a delicacy of meat to doing it with a female in heat. See www.asp.org/asp2004/abstractDisplay.cfm?abstractID=748&confEventID=786 Apparently the females are content to just watch the males enjoy the meat. Despite humans' close evolutionary kindredness with the chimps, it seems that we've, males and females alike, avoided the chimps' sorry proclivity for meat. 040610 what's it to you? who go blather from