Why are humans not among the lovelorn organisms that write in?
Well, humans already have lots of agony aunts to write to, so it seemed unfair to deprive another organism of the chance to write to Dr. Tatiana. More seriously, though, I wanted to make the point I just mentioned — that humans are not nearly so different from other organisms as we sometimes pretend. And I thought the most effective way to do this was to have other organisms asking questions about subjects that humans tend to be preoccupied with. Subjects such as? Humans tend to ask me about one of two subjects: infidelity and homosexuality. Usually the questioner seems to be trying to find some biological justification for his or her moral position. For example, playboys like to argue that monogamy is “unnatural” — “I couldn’t help cheating on my wife, your honor, it’s in my genes”. And social conservatives like to argue that homosexuality is “unnatural” because homosexuals tend not to have children, which means (the social conservatives imagine — wrongly, as it turns out) that hom
