January 4, 2005

Another kind of Darwinian selection?

http://www.iSteve.com/05JanA.htm#parental.selection

From the NYT:

Judith Rich Harris
Writer and developmental psychologist; author, "The Nurture Assumption"


I believe, though I cannot prove it, that three - not two - selection processes were involved in human evolution.

The first two are familiar: natural selection, which selects for fitness, and sexual selection, which selects for sexiness.

The third process selects for beauty, but not sexual beauty - not adult beauty. The ones doing the selecting weren't potential mates: they were parents. Parental selection, I call it.


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