...I'm eager to find out more and will be looking for this book. Thanks for the glimpse into this intriguing subject. From the quick read here, I suspect this might make a marvelous audio-book as well.

I've long advocated that should we wish to understand humans we should observe our relatives. With our expanding modern understanding of evolutionary neurology I think we're on a threshold of sorts.

Y'know you might have something here. While the circumstances between Freeman, Allen and their consorts/bonded mates are these days kinda odd and stand very starkly against the background of what we nowadays call "normal" (lets all snigger at the other's sexuality now, how charmingly simian), I wonder if there isn't a long precedent from our earliest existence as social creatures where a young female willingly parnters with a male of obvious status and even prestige, and seeing that beyond the age difference love can be boundless...or is that too corny.

Our current age-cohort lockstep in mating is something of an abberation itself if you consider most human history, due largely I think to the relatively modern idea of public education for kids and the extension of adolescence, and no doubt some sex-a-phobic interpretations of the church fathers most sex-negative concepts...thank goodness Freeman and Allen and their charming, intelligent and dare I say it sophisticated mates are beyond all that hokey religion stuff, eh? . If we are to believe the visionary bio-engineers, our increased lifespans, cosmetic surgery, hormonal treatment and who knows what else is going to make the classical notion of only marrying someone your own age an archaic and almost quait expression of faith in some airy fairy ideal of the past...like bronze age pastoralists insistence on male dominance...geeeze, how backwards can humans be?

As for the "bucket list" comment. What an "ageist" thing to say? Did they teach you that in some school or other?

Looks promising and like it might actually fullfill the promises made by the two recent "sci-fi" movies that didn't fullfill. These robots are more like the droids we're lookin' for and the real feel seemed more believable. And I admit to an admiration for Jackson's work and his instincts for story.

As for what is or isn't Sci Fi... or is it syfy...or just another category for bookshelves, I guess it should have itsown genre designation because "it", like pr0n, is hard to define but easy to recognize when you see it, though rarely done well-enough, and ultimately it's all about breakin' boundaries and seeing the unbelievable made real.

Good move to get out of the business of issuing domestic partner contracts. It shouldn't be the Church's business. I hope the next step they take is to renounce the tax exemption and use their pulpit as an instrument of advocacy on voter issues. It's what they want to do they but dance around it, cuz they don't want to give up the exemption. The dilemma is part of their problem too; they can't say exactly what they mean. Churches shouldn't have to tow the line on freedom of speech anymore than they should get a tax break. It's an alliance that really serves neither side very well. If anyone wants to serve as an example of charity or of hypocracy, let 'em do it on their own dime.

With the combination of the current economic collapse, the proposed hobbling of the industrial economic engine to control a miniscule amount of harmless CO2, and the noble fight to keep prices high, the world can rest happy knowing that poor people living in terrible conditions can look forward to a day in a future world where they wont have to experience the horrible humiliation of hearing a hollow core door closing with that terrible tacky hollow clicky sound. Hurray for us!

Let's keep stuff really expensive so shopkeepers can make a bundle instead of purchasers saving a few pennies. That will also help humanity a lot.

I mean, next time the rolling brown-outs and blackouts happen in California, or some other state, whatever...who get's the juice? The person who needs airconditioning in summer or the person whose plug-in needs some infusion of electrons? Are we really expected to believe that there will be enough excess capacity in power production.

One good thing from this will be that PG&E is expecting some huge funding and revenues and the rumor is that a bunch of it will be going into the first operation space based solar energy system, and that might be the game changer we've been looking for.