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Subject:Re: Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways
Date:Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:25:58 +0000 (UTC)
From:Mekkala <joremovedathiskimtoreply@attbi.com>
Newsgroups:alt.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.origins
On 19 Aug 2003, dkomo <dkomoNoSpam@cris.com> screwed up his face,
groaned, pushed hard, and farted out the following message in
news:3F42B7EC.8C01FAD3@cris.com: 

> Mekkala wrote:
>> 
>> On 19 Aug 2003, maff91@yahoo.com (maff) screwed up his face, groaned,
>> pushed hard, and farted out the following message in
>> news:18510aff.0308190106.23bd29f6@posting.google.com:
>> 
>> One question the article doesn't answer is, why did we keep our head
>> hair? 
>> 
> 
> Sexual selection.  Women with long hair look more attractive than bald
> women.  Therefore they will have an easier time finding mates and will
> have more children with head hair.

That's ridiculous.  *Why* do we find women with long hair more 
attractive?  Why not bald women?  You see, there's always a *reason* 
that certain features are attractive to the opposite sex in a given 
species.  There's no universal physical law as to what's attractive and 
what's not.  If there was some significant evolutionary advantage in a 
childbearing woman having a bald head, we would now instinctively find 
bald women attractive.

-- 
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"When did I realize I was God?  Well, I was praying and I suddenly 
realized I was talking to myself!"
--Peter O'Toole.