[Socratic]

"It's a pet peeve of mine that so few journalists who write about evolution seem to understand the way that it actually works!"

Given the journalist's perspective on evolution, wouldn't it be more likely that the brutish, raping males "chose" females with finer, more delicate features which translated into a more feminine beauty being passed down to males and females alike? Aren't we told that all sex is basically rape?

[XBob]

25 - You are right: "Given the journalist's perspective on evolution, wouldn't it be more likely that the brutish, raping males "chose" females with finer, more delicate features which translated into a more feminine beauty being passed down to males and females alike? Aren't we told that all sex is basically rape?"



This is just more feminist drivel written up by a metro-sexual male. Note (quote from article):

""Our research suggests that in early humans, a face that was attractive as opposed to aggressive conferred an advantage," says Eleanor Weston at the Research Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt, a member of the team.
She says that changes were probably driven by choosy females who began to demand handsomeness, not brute force. "