[Blunderov] I suppose she is beautiful. She has gone to a lot of trouble to simulate as many of the cultural characteristics of beauty as she can.
I once read of some research that was done into male perceptions of beauty. They came up with a new word to describe their findings - neotonic. The word means roughly 'like a baby'.
In his new book, The Eternal Child, Bromhall advances a theory that: "explains mysteries like homosexuality, the difference between races, the need for religion and the true nature of relationships."
Chimps and humans share a lot of the same DNA
Bromhall's theory is that the human species has anatomically and behaviourally regressed into a state of permanent childhood.
Humans are not mature primates - and by mature he means aggressive and sexually active.
Instead, he says we are over-grown baby apes: we have been infantised because without infant-like co-operation we would never have survived when we came down from the trees during earlier stages of our evolution, and banded together.
He told BBC Radio Bristol in a recent interview: "I am intrigued by the human species. There is so much about us that doesn't make sense."
On this basis, Bromhall puts human beings into four types, depending on how developed we are.
These range from the 'alpha' confrontational risk-taker to the 'ultra', the playful, sociable individual still attracted to the same sex, and thus homosexual.
In between, there is the 'bureau' - the office worker, family-man - and the 'neo', the insecure and childlike character. </q>
The human species is highly neotenic. That is, a fully mature human is actually still immature compared to what the genes could do -- an adult person is much like a chimp child: hairless, playful. Like dogs are neotonic too: a fully grown modern dog has unfolded its genes as much only as a puppy wolf.
This implies that during some period of humanity's evolution, the species' neoteny increased from nothing to where it is now. Say for example it took a thousand years, it doesn't matter what the evolutionary pressure was. During that thousand years, the mature adult of each generation would look more like a younger chimp than the mature adult of the generation before.
Now. Consider that, to reproduce, men both young and old would prefer to mate with young women: Women bear children best when they're younger, are less likely to die and more likely to nourish the child properly, etc (the grandparents are more likely to be alive when the mother is young).
Whereas women will prefer to go for older men: Having a child is a large investment for a woman, and an older man has proven survival skills: The fact that he's actually got older means he's intelligent, strong, canny and so on.
So the older man has no trouble, but it's in the young man's interest to trick the woman. He can't just evolve to look older when younger -- or rather he can, but this isn't an evolutionarily stable state, because old men and young men will get in an arms race to look older, which the old man will always win, and so the race peters out.
However, the young man can take advantage of the fact that older men are also of the generation before, who are less neotenic and look more like apes. This won't actually mean the young man will genuinely become more ape-like - this would leave him vulnerable to the evolutionary pressure which is promoting neoteny to begin with - but it means he will attempt to appear more like an ape.
The old man - who is old and apish - and the young man - who simply appears apish - can now compete on equal ground to mate. As the young man gets older, he competes with those of his own generation, so the monkey-characteristics recede. Although the constant increase of neoteny has now ceased, we're left with its effects.
That's why teenage boys look like monkeys. And what of the young woman? Having lost an important discriminator between old and young men, she moves on to secondary characteristics of age, such as: does he have a car, is he old enough to get served in pubs. </q> Best Regards
Again, this is a social/cultural cue based - which caused biological impacts and self-reinforced.
Youth as useful is almost entirely cultural.
Young men more frequently date older women in Europe than in America, for example.
My guess is that youth culture will fade during the coming transhumanist era. --- To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
Either she doesn't knwo the long-term implications of surgery, or she's willing to forego future health for present beauty.
Doing pilates and yoga 6 times per week, drinking wheatgrass shots and eating foáods high in hyaluronic acid can make someone look healthier. But it also makes tham”actually healthier”. It's a sign that someone cares for their body and appreciates their time here on earth.
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> > [Blunderov] Hello Bill. Yes I am from SA. If you ever do fetch up in =20=
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> the venue will eventually change but not the offer.) > > A frank Zappa fan! You don=92t happen to play chess do you? >
> Looks like commendable work you do there. World peace. I like the =20=
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Jo'burg was a blur to me, didn't see much, but know you will like Cape =20=
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will look you up on the next trip for a few Castle's and a quick game of chess.
Cheers, Bill
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. - F Zappa
re neotony...blunderov...i remember having a detailed discussion about this with a friend..and this, acc to him, was the reason most males find asian women attractive...neotony(facial profiles indicate that there is no 'slope..forehead to chin..something like that..)is also supposedly more attractive because the opp of neotony(forget the term) indicates a high level of testestorone in the female...dont know the credibility of these utterings..
and oh...drsebby...'have a go at her'?? i hope you get yourself tested regularly...also another good reason to use protection...you might accidentally breed...
[Mermaid]: and oh...drsebby...'have a go at her'?? i hope you get yourself tested regularly...also another good reason to use protection...you might accidentally breed...
Sebby - !! oh, shit...the temptation to reply to this provocative, inferential, suggestive, 'interpret-it-as-you-will' comment is strong. but after learning how to survive my step-mothers dagger filled words as a child, i know i can do this...for the betterment of the CoV, i know i can resist.
re neotony...blunderov...i remember having a detailed discussion about this with a friend..and this, acc to him, was the reason most males find asian women attractive...neotony(facial profiles indicate that there is no 'slope..forehead to chin..something like that..)is also supposedly more attractive because the opp of neotony(forget the term) indicates a high level of testestorone in the female...dont know the credibility of these utterings..
and oh...drsebby...'have a go at her'?? i hope you get yourself tested regularly...also another good reason to use protection...you might accidentally breed...
[Mermaid] and oh...drsebby...'have a go at her'?? i hope you get yourself tested regularly...also another good reason to use protection...you might accidentally breed...
[Sebby] - !! oh, shit...the temptation to reply to this provocative, inferential, suggestive, 'interpret-it-as-you-will' comment is strong. but after learning how to survive my step-mothers dagger filled words as a child, i know i can do this...for the betterment of the CoV, i know i can resist.
thankyou ma'm, may i have another.
[rhinoceros] Come one Sebby. There are people who would be thrilled by this kind of negative attention but they are too dull to bring it on. Don't make me post a poll.
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oh, shit...the temptation to reply to this provocative, 
