From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 01:59:42 MDT
spike66 wrote:
>> 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.
So this guy invented this notion, heh? It seems pretty unlikely
as I know of know evidence of such a pattern in other species,
i.e., other species don't seem to seek the characteristics of
their young in their mates. If it was evolutionary real, I
would expect that if this theory was reasonable.
- samantha
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