Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection
From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:09:11 -0700
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM, McDonough, Terrence
<terrence.mcdonough@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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- [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection, McDonough, Terrence Mon 11 May 2009, 19:25 GMT
  - Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection, Jim Devine Mon 11 May 2009, 19:29 GMT
    - Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection, Michael Perelman Mon 11 May 2009, 20:16 GMT
      
      Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection, Jim Devine Mon 11 May 2009, 20:35 GMT
  - Re: [Pen-l] "race" and sexual selection, raghu Mon 11 May 2009, 20:36 GMT
- [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, Louis Proyect Mon 11 May 2009, 18:25 GMT
  - Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, Jim Devine Mon 11 May 2009, 19:10 GMT
    - Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, raghu Mon 11 May 2009, 21:10 GMT
      
      Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, Michael Perelman Mon 11 May 2009, 21:15 GMT

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