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To: epicure who wrote (220437)3/25/2013 3:54:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542972
 
It's not hard to know epi. DNA testing is by the million now. <It's hard to know- but probably > And in a further spoiler for the theory you quoted, in the cases in which the natural father is not the purported father, for the most part the children are not raised by the purported father.

The list of selection variables used by women is not my theory. I'm just quoting actual investigations by dinkum scientists. The theory you quoted is not science but women's magazine "science". Maybe women you know opt to have babies from big-jawed dummies, but according to actual research, for the most part women do not in fact opt to have babies with the dull. My experience and that of most males is that women are quite particular - as choosy as they can be, and it is not the bottom decile in male intelligence who get to be the fathers of the next generation.

Hence the Flynn Effect. The peacock's tail is the equivalent of the human male brain. The selection process does a rapid forcing in the direction of intelligence. There is obvious value to women in having intelligent men fathering and looking after their children. The more intelligent the woman, the more likely she is to figure such things out. So it's a turbo-charged process.

Mqurice