By now even the alpha males realize the nerds have been crowding
their act with the female of the species. In terms of both sex and
success. For every LeBron James or Donald Trump there are dozens of
nerdy successes like Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs, and Spielberg. When did
the tide turn?
Actually about 4 million years ago, fellas.
According
to a team of biomathematicians from the University of Tennessee: "The
most important sexual revolution happened when the alphas overplayed
their testosterone with the females." While the toughs conquered and
kept their women by power, the weaker males conquered them by cunning.
Sound familiar?
Similar
to the monkey populations, some hominids learned to shower a particular
female with food and attentions. In time these females rewarded their
providers with both their bodies and their fidelity. Head researcher
Sergey Gavrilets writes in this month's Los Angeles Times: "Without the
romantic strategy devised by the more sensitive pre-historlc males, we
wouldn't have the modern family."
To be sure, today's females
still find hunks attractive. But their habit of marrying the
less-hunky-more- sensitive suitors has little to do with being recently
"emancipated." In evolutionary terms, the female of the species was
emancipated long long ago. Some of them just never told us.
But
then what about all those glitz paparazzi stories about
Drop-Dead-Gorgeous-Female-Celebrity gliding down the wedding aisle [in
white, no less!] with Breathlessly-Beautiful-Stud-Male-Celebrity? Lets
put is this way. In evolutionary terms, don't hold your breath waiting
for any silver anniversary stories.
Maybe it's true what they
say: "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." Who
says that? Those hominids who have learned to understand the difference.
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