"Every baby born (whether male or female) inherits from its father genes that made the father look like he does and the genes that made the mother like how he looks."
It's pulled from a Richard Dawkins lecture discussing Darwinian theories of sexual selection asserting that sexual preferences themselves are governed by genetic selection. There is no aesthetic that works better or worse to promote sexual selection, female taste itself is under genetic control and subject to natural selection. Dawkins focused on this particular construction of female tastes and male characteristics, because the primates that he discusses have males with physiological sexual advertisements and females selecting their male mating partners on the basis of these characteristics, at least in part.
It makes me wonder about a lot of things, but right now I'm on my way to grab lunch with a much neglected friend. I hope I don't force "red sack preferences" anywhere into our conversation.
Also, what do pubes do? Filter debris like eyelashes and nose-hair? Regulate temperature? I know that's why the testes drop. But really, what are pubes good for? To cushion a blow? Just thinking developmentally, why do human beings grow hair on our genitals during puberty? Is it a signal of fertility? And, what's up with armpit hair? It's already warm under there- is it to collect bacteria and keep it from being reabsorbed into our skin once we develop into armpit funk producers? Physiologically, what's the purpose of concentrated dense hair growth?
I like my eyebrows though.
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