tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post3468668114391808725..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Tall and good lookingSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-66638820985677343322011-12-02T13:51:05.297-05:002011-12-02T13:51:05.297-05:00I think that beauty at least for females was at on...I think that beauty at least for females was at one point connected to fitness and more offsprings. However, like IQ, it is no longer so in modern societies. I think being a beautiful woman still gives you better options of marrying a better mate, which includes status and money, things that help you procreate if you decided to do so. Since most people are more self centered these days, beautifulreservoir_dogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-89748708660780516102011-11-02T16:51:15.263-04:002011-11-02T16:51:15.263-04:00 Well said. This is more or less what I came here ... Well said. This is more or less what I came here to post. The selection pressure for beauty simply isn't that strong. Especially in modern monogamous patriarchal western societies. Also there's a sex selection bit here as well: do women care as much about male beauty as men do about female beauty? I would argue that they do not. Or have not, traditionally.Amir Touraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-66660133637866484172011-10-25T11:57:25.662-04:002011-10-25T11:57:25.662-04:00Cause ugly people are still hooking up. Barf.
Pr...Cause ugly people are still hooking up. Barf. <br /><br />Pretty people don't have more kids in part because women are distracted by status. If Brad Pitt or Ralph Fiennes<br /> or whatever you favorite flavor is was a garbage man he'd get nothing but a fat chick.MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-62241369544868221892011-10-24T17:02:27.859-04:002011-10-24T17:02:27.859-04:00Spot on. That has to be the most common misinterpr...Spot on. That has to be the most common misinterpretation of natural selection; it's one of the things that bothered me about that Paleo-MMA video Prof. Hsu posted a little while back. People project their own idealized view of humanity and nature onto Darwin and take survival of the fittest to mean survival of the strongest, most aesthetically pleasing, highest IQ etc. But there's a Guy_Brodudenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-72645733284947243172011-10-23T22:46:23.526-04:002011-10-23T22:46:23.526-04:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinophilia
Question...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinophilia<br /><br />Question could be better posed. Why isn't the standard deviation tighter? Mean = most attractive<br /><br />Must have todo with benefits of competiton, no?riemannzetanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-75610448382869985902011-10-23T03:05:22.756-04:002011-10-23T03:05:22.756-04:00If the caveman was doing the comparison, he might ...If the caveman was doing the comparison, he might come to a different conclusion.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69918870431079670142011-10-23T03:03:45.511-04:002011-10-23T03:03:45.511-04:00Genoa produced less great art than any Italian cit...Genoa produced less great art than any Italian city half its size, as Ezra Pound liked to point out.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-16420098288009764382011-10-23T03:00:45.068-04:002011-10-23T03:00:45.068-04:00You really think only gay men prefer real breasts ...You really think only gay men prefer real breasts to fake?5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-49495436609964134602011-10-23T00:57:53.373-04:002011-10-23T00:57:53.373-04:00This is also one area where it's important to ...This is also one area where it's important to keep in mind how evolution works. It's not just females selecting male beauty, males have a strong influence.<br /><br />One thing that can be deduced from the fossil record is that we've had a sharp downturn in "hyper-masculine" facial characteristics. This isn't due to apparent female preference, the best theories are that LaurentMelchiorTelliernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10437432213700222352011-10-22T22:43:00.056-04:002011-10-22T22:43:00.056-04:00Supermodels are picked out by gay men who think th...Supermodels are picked out by gay men who think that their clothes will look good on a human coat hanger with a pretty face. If you want to get an idea of the types of bodies and faces men find attractive, you have to look at pornography. Sam Hhttp://profiles.google.com/samh550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-14521216940805138912011-10-22T22:09:05.233-04:002011-10-22T22:09:05.233-04:00"If so, why aren't we all much better loo..."If so, why aren't we all much better looking?"<br /><br />Speak for yourself (just kidding). People have gotten a lot better looking over the years, I'm sure. If you compare you average caveman to today's man, I would bet the cave man would have more ugly face genes. Sam Hhttp://profiles.google.com/samh550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-49723830396433925062011-10-22T18:37:35.834-04:002011-10-22T18:37:35.834-04:00Perhaps we are better looking. If you go to an art...Perhaps we are better looking. If you go to an art museum in Genoa, look skeptically at the faces in the Old Masters. How would they do if they entered modeling today?Steve Sailernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10459914190078285642011-10-22T07:46:34.792-04:002011-10-22T07:46:34.792-04:00We have huge parts of our brain devoted to face re...We have huge parts of our brain devoted to face recognition. We are just extremely good at discriminating between faces. There could have been an arms race between beauty selection and beauty discrimination. I'm sure we all look identical to a bonobo.Carson Chownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-24456393226260067612011-10-22T03:43:19.560-04:002011-10-22T03:43:19.560-04:00Supermodels are not physically well suited to exte...Supermodels are not physically well suited to extensive childbearing. The link between upward social mobility and increased biological fitness is very tenuous.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-37419716782256865082011-10-21T14:32:20.715-04:002011-10-21T14:32:20.715-04:00Yes, that's one of the stranger aspects of mod...Yes, that's one of the stranger aspects of modernity.<br /><br />Consider someone who works extremely hard, achieves considerable professional success at some personal cost and with little leisure, and has the standard upper-middle-class 1.7 children or whatever.<br /><br />Constrast with someone who drops out of high school, goofs around but has lots of fun times, works at a dead-end job andRKU1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-9659079503869909762011-10-21T13:59:44.656-04:002011-10-21T13:59:44.656-04:00Probably for the same reason such a large percenta...Probably for the same reason such a large percentage of the population has poor eyesight. Presumably it isn't difficult to find the right genes to have good eyesight (the vast majority of animals do), but having poor eyesight doesn't exert a strong negative selection pressure among humans. Likewise, the vast majority of humans can reproduce regardless of whether they have perfectly Jordan Fishernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-9248410011400774222011-10-21T09:18:55.337-04:002011-10-21T09:18:55.337-04:00In the paper, Mueller & Mazure “Evidence of Un...In the paper, Mueller & Mazure “Evidence of Unconstrained Directional Selection for Male Tallness”, they claim that tall men have more children because they are more likely to have second families. Oddly, they found no link between height and socioeconomic success in this study, which should raise eyebrows. However, it is a military sample and therefore not typical.<br /><br />Keep in mind, LaurentMelchiorTelliernoreply@blogger.com