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Handsome men evolved thanks to picky females
New Scientist ^
| 5/12/04
| Andy Coghlan
Posted on 05/12/2004 4:08:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Naa... I look good because God made me that way.
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:09:50 PM PDT
by
rdb3
($710.96... The price of freedom.)
To: LibWhacker
So why am I here?
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:13:00 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
To: LibWhacker
As our ancestors evolved, the ability to attract a female mate through good looks became more important.Darn!
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:13:44 PM PDT
by
68skylark
(.)
To: LibWhacker
Yeah, so how do they explain the rest of us?
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:14:16 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: rdb3
I object to the braid removal.
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:14:57 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: LibWhacker
Thank you, ladies :-)
To: LibWhacker
This articles fails to address an evolutionary reason for it, though. The females would not have suddenly decided that they liked some look better than others--they would have had some reason for deciding that males with that look would be more likely to reproduce than the others, and hence would have selected them. This author makes it sound like they woke up one day and thought, "hmm, the bulky aggressive look is out!"
(It's a pet peeve of mine that so few journalists who write about evolution seem to understand the way that it actually works!)
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:15:48 PM PDT
by
johnfrink
To: RightWhale
Us handsome guys are always a point of wonder. Wouldnt it be great if women would respect us for our minds instead of our looks?..Women can be soooo shallow!
sarcasm off
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:16:49 PM PDT
by
rrrod
To: blackdog
Perhaps those of us in the "visually challenged" department compensate by other means: superior intellect, cunning, big feet...whatever.
To: LibWhacker
I thought it was big feet that attracted women.;^)
To: LibWhacker
Probably was true at one time before the discovery of alcohol.
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:19:16 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: LibWhacker
The opposite was true in males with more elongated faces.
To: Larry Lucido
Money.
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:19:55 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: RightWhale
Good question! :-)
And I notice the author doesn't address the complimentary riddle . . . Why aren't more women . . . um . . . like, 42Ds? Evolution works both ways.
To: LibWhacker
Life is unfair.
Being the handsome devil I am, I can only thank GOD it is unfair in my favor!
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:21:20 PM PDT
by
Enduring Freedom
(Jean Fidel Qaerry - Vietnam Veterans Against The War On Terrorism)
To: FITZ
Well, I was blessed with neither money, looks or superior intellect. Guess I'll have to go with "big feet."
To: johnfrink
All that is needed to complete the "scientific proof" that you seek is for most 'scientists' in that field to agree that its a possible explanation.
QED
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:21:58 PM PDT
by
dartuser
To: Larry Lucido
That was cruel!
But true!
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posted on
05/12/2004 4:22:04 PM PDT
by
Enduring Freedom
(Jean Fidel Qaerry - Vietnam Veterans Against The War On Terrorism)
To: Larry Lucido
> the "visually challenged" department compensate by other means: superior intellect
A wild ass guess: a larger brain Way Back When might have been linked with a shorter "snout." And the fems were able to pick up on the fact that the Homo Erectus nerd was able to fashion a pointy stick, while the Homo Erectus jock couldn't.
Just a guess.
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