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Message 69 of 79 (303080)
04-10-2006 10:21 PM
Reply to: Message 68 by EZscience
04-10-2006 9:24 PM


You are making the rather tenuous assumption that mate selection (for purposes of actual reproduction) will be based soley on overt physical features, rather that intelligence, or sufficient education to de-frock surgically created 'beauty'.
I just have to say my two bits on sexual selection in humans - creativity, not intelligence - is what was selected, intelligence is just a by-product. This is why Mick Jagger is sexy.
The other 'bit' is that "beauty" is an averaged condition: the most 'averaged' people are more beautiful.

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