Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung ( 1889). German original: “die Zähmung der Bestie Mensch.” Nietzsche uses the word “Mensch,” which can refer to all humans, but he basically means human males. All translations mine.
Konrad Lorenz, “Die angeborenen Formen möglicher Erfahrung,” Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, no. 5 (1943): 298. German original: “domestikationsbedingte Verfallserscheinungen.”
Konrad Lorenz, Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit (Piper Verlag, 1973), 62, 64. German original: “Muskelschwund und Fettansatz samt resultierendem Hängebauch,” “ungeduldige Forderung nach sofortiger Triebbefriedigung, Mangel jeglicher Verantwortlichkeit und jeglicher Rücksichtnahme auf die Gefühle anderer.”
Although it invokes a lot of scientific racism, the manosphere does not appear to have an either/or attitude to nature versus nurture.
Lorenz, Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit, 12. German original: “die fortschreitende Verweichlichung des verstädterten Menschen.”
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte, Erster Teil (Heinrich Dieterich, 1806).
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (John Murray, 1871).
Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics (Henry S. King & Co., 1872), EPUB.
Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Pantheon, 2019).
Clive Bromhall, The Eternal Child: How Evolution Has Made Children of Us All (Ebury Press, 2003), 176.
Bromhall, Eternal Child, 140. Freud examined the complexities of such relationships when actual children enter the picture.
Louis Bolk, Das Problem der Menschwerdung (Von Gustav Fischer, 1926).
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity (Random House, 2020), EPUB.
Hare and Woods, Survival of the Friendliest.
S. J. Warden and E. M. Haney, “Skeletal Effects of Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine) Transporter Inhibition: Evidence From In Vitro and Animal-Based Studies,” Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 8, no. 2 (April–June 2008).
Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (Otto Wigand, 1845).
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, Dritter Theil (Verlag von Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884). German original: “den Menschen selber zu des Menschen bestem Haustiere.”
M. H. D. Larmuseau et al., “Low Historical Rates of Cuckoldry in a Western European Human Population Traced by Y-Chromosome and Genealogical Data,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, no. 1772 (2013).
German original: “anständig geblieben,” “Ausrottung des jüdischen Volkes.”
