natural selection

It's not that the fittest are selected for, but that the least fit are selected against -- that is, they fail to produce viable offspring. yout got the point, i agree with you




Without any factor selecting against a particular trait, it is retained. The appendix no longer serves a function, but it is still there. Likely it will eventually become less and less prominent and may vanish altogether in individuals and then in populations because there are no selective pressures against people born with minute appendices.

On the other hand, if there was a worldwide epidimic of some virulent and deadly disease that could only survive in the appendix, the surviving population (if there was one) should be appendix free or resistant to the disease.

Phoenix32890 wrote:

Small waisted, large hipped women tended to produce offspring more easily. (Here we go, being anthropological again!). Therefore, that sort of woman was considered more desirable by early man. Women with narrow distances between their pelvic bones often had difficulty in childbirth. I would assume, that before Caesarean sections, many of these women died in childbirth.

Too damn right they did P-nix. So, what is the most important quality at this point for a male? ...


Some have suggested that women would prefer to have looks over brains because they know that men can see better than they can think.

What I find very interesting from this past weeks news is tht eventually we may not have any men at all! At that point will we women be smarter but ugly? (I haven't seen Slappy's sister, so I can't delve into that!)