From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 20:33:16 MDT
Spike wrote:
> For instance: mammal females love and nurture
> their babies. For that reason, perhaps adult
> males which maintain some juvenile characteristics
> would enjoy a relatively greater appeal to the
> female population. This would explain why we
> have the term "boyish good looks."
Yes, and it might also explain the ongoing sexual revolution started in the
70's. Nurturing females would better appreciate males who share their
nurturing values, leading to the "sensitive guy" attraction. Sensitive and
nurturing male character traits might then might be passed on to future
generations.
> Since human babies have relatively large heads
> with respect to their bodies, perhaps female-
> choice societies would tend to evolve populations
> with bulbous heads. That is the best way I can
> explain how humans came to have such enormous
> brains
That's a pretty bizarre idea, spike, but at the moment I can't think of any
way to refute it.
When I was a child in the first grade, my best buddy's big brother used to
tease me, calling me "the little kid with the bobulous head." (I'm not sure
if "bobulous" is even a real word, but that's what my best friend's mean big
brother used to call me.) I had a huge head relative to my body size even at
age 6, and I was not a small child by any means. Since then my body parts
have evened-out, thankfully, though I still find it a bit difficult to find
hats and sunglasses that fit comfortably. :)
-gts
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