On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM, McDonough, Terrence <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, Jim has the details wrong. The idea is that you prefer mates who > look like your parents. This is for perhaps psychological and not survival > reasons. This is about the origin of differences in appearance not their > perpetuation. This kind of selection produces feedback effects which can > produce morphological differences among isolated populations that have > nothing to do with adapting to different evironments. This includes skin > color. >
Why does this work for some kinds of differences and not for others? E.g. why is it that children of fat parents are not attracted preferentially to fat people? -raghu. -- My fallacies are more logical than your fallacies. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
