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Old Nov 30, 2006, 05:41 PM
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I love the responses from our forum members....good chuckle!
I am thinking there is a sexual selection heirarchy among humans, though it is much more subtle than what we observe in the other primates. I have observed this for 18 years of teaching middle school adolescents wherein the most attractive, athletic males gravitate toward the most beautiful females, often cheerleaders, etc. Intellect has nothing to do with it, btw. Those students of high intelligence, or quirkiness, seem to postpone or repress the sexual selection process at the adolescent age, I suspect, for fear of rejection. Does this mean they are lower on the evolutionary scale of selection? And then there are those of low intelligence, from economically deprived households, on welfare, who gravitate to sex very early, and, thus, begin producing offspring quickly and rapidly, far outpacing the other two groups in reproduction.

You do realize and acknowledge that dependence on the parents is essential for primates, don't you? The lack of contact and nurturing by the parent(s) to the offspring results in dysfuntional behavior, unless you are talking about salmon or tadpoles.
Patty