Just as peahens' preferences have created male peacocks' huge displays...

[redqueen]

by their choosing mates with larger feathers... human females have created _________.

Fill in the blank.

[amitten]

1. I like the guys with the biggest compassion.

Sex-ay!

[billyskank]

2. .

.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. shitty Jell-O "salads" with pistachios and shredded carrots and marhsmallows

[Dr. Strange]

10. I smell a new SAT problem!

peahens' preferences : male peacocks' huge displays :: human females : shitty Jell-O "salads" with pistachios and shredded carrots and marhsmallows

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. dear god, are you saying males and masculinity, is our fault

:scared:

oh god. oh noes.

[billyskank]

5. .

.

[redqueen]

8. Hah no... of course not. Just find it interesting to consider...

we've moved from living like pack animals to using tools and assessing consequences and altering our behavior accordingly... some huge steps forward there. Is it unreasonable to think that the selectiveness of females when choosing a mate could have had anything to do with it? Then again the popular image is of a caveman doing the choosing ... so who knows?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. i think that creating societies & economies has to a degree hampered with evolution

we maybe could have shaped men physically, if we were not for years dependent on them financially

[redqueen]

11. Yup!

That's the catch, isn't it? Uncertainties about cavemen's possible roles aside... for centuries now, we've been sort of not on the deciding end of things, have we?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. yup. we have not.

[flvegan]

6. ...a market for the Corvette.

[Orsino]

7. SUVs. n/t

[SOteric]

13. have created men

with huge bums by their choosing mates who are physically unable to pick up their own socks.

[DS1]

25. alright, that's it

after that I'm posting YOUR private pictures

:cry:

[TZ]

14. height in men?

I could see height going up in some societies because women have (in general of course) a preference for taller guys.
This works the other way as well---women have been selected for bigger breasts because of male preference..probably because at one point in time, larger breasted women could produce more milk
and therefore healthier offspring..
I am endlessly fascinated by sexual selection--I studied it a lot in college...

[redqueen]

15. About breasts...

I read that human females are the only mammal whose breasts don't swell only after she becomes pregnant... although cows seem a glaring ommission... or do their udders not look like that before pregnancy? But I digress.... anyway from what I've read, this has been theorized as a way to increase the likelihood of a male partnering up as it always seems that the female is pregnant.

But yes... bigger breasts, wider hips = better likelihood of producing offspring... that's the conventional wisdom on that one, I think.

Can you tell I find this stuff pretty fascinating myself? :P

[TZ]

17. You ever read anything about bower birds?

They have FASCINATING sexual behavior..and in some ways, it reminds me of human behavior..But its weird what the females find attractive..In one species, the Satin Bowerbird, the females are most attracted to the males who have the most blue parrot feathers at their bower (a structure of sticks that a male builds to attract females). What survival value do blue parrot feathers have?
Who knows...:)

[redqueen]

18. Yes!

I like the species in which the male does the little alternating raised-wing dance best though... recently my daughters asked me why the boys in school act so tough to impress girls, when they're only children and obviously not tough soldiers or anything like that... I used the bird dance as a way to explain.

:rofl:

[TZ]

19. At one point in college..

I could have been considered one of the world's foremost experts on Great Bower Bird behavior?
I spent a summer watching tapes of mating behavior for a professor..it was quite interesting mostly..although sometimes I would get headaches when I would have to count the number of times the male would screech before mating....
If anyone else on this board had any job like that one, I'd be surprised..:rofl:

[redqueen]

21. Hah, what a job!

I can see how that might become headache-inducing after a while. :)

[dawgmom]

16. Men with less back hair

Or one can only hope.

[gmoney]

20. Mullets

Mind if I swipe your OMG and ONOZ guys?

Just love that... :)

[redqueen]

22. Heck, grab the fulll version!

It's not mine or anything... I've seen it online for ages... finally decided to edit it so I could fit it in my sig. :)

[KamaAina]

23. Three-inch-high toupees,

thick gold chains, open shirts, speedboats, and Corvettes. :eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. Large junk.

I'm series.