From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 01:34:58 MDT
> Spike wrote: >>perhaps adult
>>males which maintain some juvenile characteristics
>>would enjoy a relatively greater appeal to the
>>female population...
>>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
> gts wrote:
>
> That's a pretty bizarre idea, spike, but at the moment I can't think of any
> way to refute it.
I didn't invent this notion. The idea is an outgrowth of
theories presented in Geoffrey Miller's excellent work
The Mating Mind.
> 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."...
> 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
Well there ya go, g. In your life have you had
better than normal copulationary success?
spike
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