But they dump his gay a55 soon enough.
Posted on 05/05/2006 4:53:27 AM PDT by mathprof
At first glance, the "sexy son hypothesis" makes perfect sense. According to this pillar of evolutionary biology, a female who chooses a high-quality male will have sons who inherit dad's allure. They, too, will therefore have their pick of females, allowing mom to hit the jackpot: grandmotherhood.
But when scientists followed male flycatchers whose dads were real catches (as judged by a forehead patch that is this bird's equivalent of perfect abs), they found no such thing.
The sons "did not inherit their father's ... mating status," the Swedish researchers wrote in the February issue of American Naturalist. As a result, mom got fewer grandkids than did females who settled for less-attractive males. The studs were so busy mating they had no time to raise offspring, causing their health and fecundity to suffer. Homelier birds were better dads, raising sons who had more mating success.
Poor Darwin. After he developed his theory of how organisms change through variation and natural selection, his thoughts turned to sex. Because females have few eggs (compared with males' limitless sperm), their best strategy is to select the highest-quality males for mates, he wrote in 1871. That way, their progeny also would have superior traits. The offspring would survive and reproduce better, making mom's fondest wish -- to become a grandmother -- come true. (In evolution, success means reproduction, not only for you but for your descendants unto the nth generation, too.)
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Or so textbooks say. Just as Darwin's theory of natural selection is under attack by America's religious right, his less-known theory of sexual selection is catching flak from some biologists.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Thank God...
There's hope for me yet...
I'm glad the Swedes spent their tax money on this study and not mine. Some of these studies don't need a PhD to tell us the obvious.
The fact that John Kerry has been married twice verifies this.
That would certainly explain the Heather Locklear-David Spade rumors.
When a religion is spit and paper founded on sand, you have to keep patching it back together.
Uh, David Spade is a cutie. He's no Richie Sambora that's for sure but he can hold his own.
This gives all of us hope.
I would like to test this theory,,,,with Jessica Alba. Anything for the advancement of science.
:-)
So the big goal is becoming a grandmother?? Whatever...
But they dump his gay a55 soon enough.
Until recently......he probably was.
Bwahahahahahahaha!
LOL!
I was thinking that Bill Gates was considered a great catch, but the John Kerry example is even better verification.
I was recently discussing this sort of thing with my wife ... Morgan Fairchild.
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My wife did.
I have always thought among those of the human persuasion, a lass may like a bit of adventure along the way. Still, in the end, pheromones and instict developed in millions of years of trial and error will encourage her to pick a lad with two main characteristics. The first will be one with DNA to complement hers in making the next generation marginally stronger than the present one in dodging obstacles of all shapes and sizes. Then, the same lad has to be the most adept, at least in her estimation, at providing for the group and protecting them from the wolves and the barbarians at the gate.
I got mine on order.
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