| haiku |
[Sep. 20th, 2003|06:38 pm] |
butcher shop -
the flesh on display
just recently dead |
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| scratchpad |
[Sep. 20th, 2003|11:37 pm] |
1. one's intelligence is inheritable, and provides a certain evolutionary advantage.
2. beauty (physical attractiveness) also provides an advantage, and is inheritable.
3. therefore, we have four combinations:
a) int (m) + int (f) = int, provided there's enough genetic distance between the male and the female.
b) int (m) + bea (f) = a potential blend of beauty and intelligence (some dilution of intelligence or beauty)
c) bea (m) + int (f) = a blend (see p. b)
d) bea (m) + bea (f) = beauty, provided that the perception of the beauty in the society is substantially consistent.
4. strategy d) is the riskiest in the information society;
strategy a) is the riskiest in a "physical" society
5. since the typical human society does not follow any of the pure models, it appears that b) and c) would carry the lowest evolutionary risk, i.e. we would get a normal distribution biased toward b) & c) combinations.
6. given the patriarchical tradition in the western as well as eastern societies, wherein men choose women, and a premium is being paid for a woman's beauty, b) must emerge as the most likely outcome of the mating game.
7. and it does. we can find anecdotal evidence all over the place. it would be interesting to do a formal study on the subject.
8. i wonder, what is going to be the trend as women become more independent, marry later, and have better access to men?
also, the society becomes more information-based.
9. most likely, there will further shift into the a) b) area, since the bias toward selecting intelligent males has already been established.
NB. i forgot childbearing health implications. potentially compensated by the advances in medicine. |
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