Re: RichAsianKid's Recurrent Ruminations on Cars, Chicks and Courtship


Kai wrote:
Re: RichAsianKid's Recurrent Ruminations on Cars, Chicks and Courtship

Group: soc.culture.asian.american Date: Thu, May 11, 2006, 2:51am
(EDT-3) From: walter_lee@xxxxxxxxxxx (drydem)
RichAsianKid wrote:
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What are the most important things or "vectors" in life? In biological
terms, it's fitness and fecundity. Fitness is Darwianian survival;
fecundity is the ability to mate and multiply fruitfully. .... So why
are females choosier? Well, biologically, women do most of the work in
terms of childbearing
...
Some sort of paternal investment may be called for to balance out the
biological equation! So women get to choose. But there needs to be a
sieve with sufficient discriminatory ability to weed out real the men vs
the boyz.......
the story below
suggest that women can identify men by their face as either a one night
stand or someone to settling down with...
Women Get Paternal Clues in Men's Faces
DON BABWIN, Associated Press. Wed May 10, 7:19 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060510/ap_on_sc/liking_kids_8
CHICAGO - Women looking for a long-term relationship like men who like
children - and they can tell which guys might be interested in becoming
fathers just by looking at their faces. Those are among the findings of
a study of college students published Wednesday in a British scientific
journal.
"This study suggests that women are picking up on facial cues that are
perhaps related to paternal qualities," said James Roney, a University
of California at Santa Barbara psychologist and lead author of the
study. "The more they perceived the men as liking kids, the more likely
they could see having a longer-term relationship."
Experts said evolution has apparently programmed women to recognize men
who might be interested in propagating the species by raising a family.
The study wasn't all bad news for men not interested in settling down.
It found that women can look at men's faces and figure out which of them
have the highest testosterone levels. Those men - rated the most
masculine by the women - turn out to be just the kind of guys they would
want for a fling.
"Women make very good use of any information they get from a man's
face," said co-author Dario Maestripieri, an associate professor of
comparative human development at the University of Chicago. "Depending
on what they want and where they are in their lives, they use this
information differently."
In the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
Biological Sciences, researchers looked at a group of 39 men, ages 18 to
33, at the University of Chicago. Each man was shown 10 pairs of
photographs and silhouettes, one of an adult and the other of an infant,
and asked to rate their preferences. Meanwhile, their saliva was tested
to determine testosterone levels.
Photographs of the men's faces were then shown to 29 women, ages 18 to
20, at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The women were asked to rate the men on four qualities: "likes
children," "masculine," "physically attractive" and "kind." Then they
were asked to rate how attractive they found each man for short-term and
long-term romance.
The study found women did well at rating men on their interest in
babies, and those they rated masculine generally had higher testosterone
levels than the others.
For example, the men who indicated they liked children the most were
rated as above average in liking children by 20 of the 29 women. The men
who showed no interest in children were correctly rated as below average
in that category by 19 of the women.
The higher the women rated the men for masculinity, the higher they were
rated as potential short-term romantic partners. The higher they rated
men for their interest in children, the higher they were rated for
long-term romance.
The features that research has suggested denote high testosterone levels
include a prominent jaw and a heavy beard.
The findings came as no surprise to those in the business of studying
human behavior - and love.
"What this study illustrates is that there are genetic programs that
increase survival of the species because there are hormones in women
that are cuing their reactions to the hormones of the men," said Dr.
Daniel Alkon, scientific director of the Blanchette Rockefeller
Neurosciences Institute in Morgantown, W.Va., and Washington.
Or as Kristin Kelly, a spokeswoman for the online dating service
Match.com, put it: "They call it `love at first sight´ for a reason.
They don´t say `love at first sentence,´ `love at first word.´"
It is unclear just what about the men's faces tipped the women off about
their interest in children. While Maestripieri guessed it might have
something to do with "a more rounded face, a gentler face," Roney said
the answer might be found in the expressions on the men's faces.
He explained that after the study was completed, five graduate students
were asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 whether the men looked angry or
happy. Though the men were instructed to have a neutral look on their
faces when photographed, some apparently looked happier than others.
"It seemed that the men who picked more infants in that test had a
happier or more content look on their face," he said.







I understand science and technology has and will continue to become
even more amazing. Having said that I still can't help feeling some of
these huge piles of so called "studies" being performed these days are
utter bull***. Sheep need sheperds and the "study" is the biggest
sheperd of all to so called intellectuals. That is until a study
disproves something they themselves hold as gospel truth. Maybe
totalitarians/communists have it right when they go after the
intelligentsia.


Humans are territorial, hierarchical beings....so one way or another
some type of rank-order system both within and without a society will
need to be established. And it's always about power over others one way
or another - dulled by alliances and coalitions. In that sense with the
current direction that (some) Western intelligentsia is going, with its
morbid obsession on egalitarianism, hey, don't worry - they'll
self-liquidate.

Science and technology is the new "golden calf" to worship.
Technocratic nonsense. It's funny how the faster we speed toward
technological nirvana with equal speed we race towards oblivion. Human
beings are the only of God's creatures to consistently wallow in
marvel,at THEMSELVES. That energy could be better spent by every world
power simultaneously orgasming their load of most advanced weaponry and
putting us al out of our glorious misery.


We belong to the animal kingdom first and foremost, and we know the
fate of most species in history!

Sparks Mcgovern

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