Biology dictates no eternal sexual hostility because humanity is historical becoming, not mere species.

Evidence

We have seen that in spite of legends, no physiological destiny imposes eternal hostility on the Male and Female as such; even the notorious praying mantis devours her male only for lack of other food and for the good of the species: in the animal kingdom, from the top of the ladder to the bottom, all individuals are subordinated to the species. Moreover, humanity is something other than a species: it is a historical becoming; it is defined by the way it assumes natural facticity. … The battle of the sexes is not immediately implied by the anatomy of man and woman. In fact, when it is mentioned, it is taken for granted that in the timeless heaven of Ideas a battle rages between these uncertain essences: the Eternal Feminine and the Eternal Masculine; and it is not noticed that this titanic combat assumes two totally different forms on earth, corresponding to different historical moments. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1965

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core Beauvoirian distinction between species and historical becoming, and natural facticity assumed by humanity — central to the existentialist-feminist apparatus.
• XREF: The ‘humanity as historical becoming vs. species’ distinction echoes Sartre’s being-for-itself vs. being-in-itself, and Hegel’s Geist. Also the ‘Eternal Feminine’ refutes essentialism — connects to reading purpose C foundational grounding. — connects to: Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142; Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617; Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 825 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: This compactly dissolves the biological-determinism myth (praying mantis demystification) and reframes gender conflict as historically situated — among the densest articulations of the book’s anti-essentialist core.

Broader Connections

• Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142
• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617
• Biology does not condemn women to inferiority; meaning applied to differences does #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1978
• Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 825
• Human diversity of societies proves culture is not tightly biologically fixed #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 156