In a message dated 10/6/00 10:13:43 PM, spike66@ibm.net writes:
>Curt, Im not saying I disagree exactly, but reread the three sentences
>in your first paragraph. It is not at all clear to me that they support
>each other in any way. Certainly we are attracted to the right bumps,
>the singing, the conversation, the clothes, notions all perfectly in
accordance
>with those presented in Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind. It is not
>clear to me from your discussion, however that sexual selection cues
>are learned behaviors. Looks to me like most of them are instinctive.
Not music, clothes, current topics, etc. You must know the currently
desirable stuff, and know what's out too. Nobody's impressed if you
show up in clothes 10 years out of date. The fact that we like music
and clothes may be largely genetic but the details of what we like are
not.
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