At 09:55 PM Tuesday 12/4/2007, Warren Ockrassa wrote: >Anthropic principle aside, sexual selection might go a pretty decent >way toward explaining why we have such vastly oversized brains with >which to observe the universe, make deductions and inferences about >it, and contemplate a nice cup of gyokuro tea. > >Sexual selection in birds, for instance, appears to be the "reason" >for a peacock's tail; an analogous mechanism in primates might have >led to a positive feedback loop that resulted in a ludicrously >disproportionate enlarging of the brain. > >So, alas, size might matter after all.
Yes. Most of us have observed how the high school coeds all flock to the big-brained geeks and nerds and leave the jocks to sit home alone on Friday nights. -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
