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To: Crabbe who wrote (3219)	1/11/2006 3:18:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219371

Crabbe, it's true I am getting too old, but I haven't lost my mind yet. On the contrary, I now rate as sage. I have decades of wisdom and distilled interpretations of all that has gone before. <what delectable young lass is not interested in the football quarterback, or the stud with dynamic wheels.> My experience is, lots. Also, my 1951 rusty Hillman seemed to be considered suitable transport, lack of heater, handbrake, tyre tread, warrant of fitness, notwithstanding. Consider other examples. Mick Jagger is far from a jock. Note that Stephen Hawking while grossly incapacitated took up with a mistress. He can't even talk without a machine. But let's believe the market research too - women say what they rate in a mate and being nice, funny, charming and intelligent rate well above massive body-building and quarterback quality, which is a "nice but not essential" variable. Also, let's check the facts of what happened. The Flynn Effect shows exactly what happened. So does the fact that we are not chimps and have megahorsepower brains. That didn't happen by chance. It was selected. <In any case evolution does not happen in a generation or 20 generations. > It's true that swarms of new mutations don't happen in a single generation or even in 20 generations. But there are so many mutations already available in the 6 billion people that a vast change in humans could happen with NO new mutations. Filtering and selection of the existing gene pool could create a human species of males with the body of a quarterback and brainpower of Einstein, or, on the other hand, a remarkable likeness to a chimpanzee, but without the chimp's brainpower! No mutations needed. What is rapidly going on is filtration and selection. 6 billion of us are in the life and death process. There have been more people alive since 1800 than all those who have ever lived. faculty.plattsburgh.edu Evolution, including mutations, is going faster now than ever, even though death rates before age 40 are so much lower than ever. We should expect the Flynn Effect to pick up speed. With the addition of cyberspace, we are living in the most spectacular era ever. This is a bigger deal than everything. The industrial revolution was a big deal compared with what had gone before. But that was trivial compared with what's going on now. Even the invention of sexual biology eons ago was small beer by comparison. We have to go right back to the invention of DNA to get something comparable. < there are certain features that are universally admired by men of all races in females> A notable omission was any mention of the contents of the skull. While males rate intellectual aspects lower than do females for males, they still rate fairly highly. Mqurice

To: Crabbe who wrote (3219)	1/11/2006 11:09:37 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219371

Crabbe you cut to today, which is good since we exhausted already the Antropolocical part of ti. <<Until 200 years ago the picture changed -scientific progress arrived- to the advantage of the intelligent and to the detriment of the brute force guys. We have had only 200 years to re-arrange the chairs around the table. Sucess, now, depends on how better one make use to available scientific knowledge.>> Message 22045171 What you're talking about is how the script plays on now after the scientific revolution. Today is a different ballgame. The case of the nerd is agood example since it illustrates how choices are distorted by media exposure. Nerds -which are usefull- are depicted in the media as guys with unkempt hair, laboring in a cellar. Surfists -which are uterly useless- are shown as healthy, fit with a glamorous life style. Before it was not possible to have a life style that was sex appealing. Today there is. The renegade from the human race can go to Thailand and he can have as many females as he wants provides that he has some money. If he is a nice guy he needs little money. Women, today needs only to vote for a leaft leaning government which provides them with pseudo jobs. If I would be really calous I would say: A lot of trash is surviving in modern age. But I am not really calous, so I don't day it.