Hagi said:
BGH122 said:
Evolutionary 'babble' is perfectly valid. Evolution drives all organisms without exception. I've never heard a 'female brain' comment though, those sound pretty hilarious.
The evolutionary babble is exactly that, babble.
Read up on epigenetics and learn that we're not nearly as static as we sometimes believe we are.
Read up on human history and learn that what's considered attractive has greatly varied and changed in the course of history.
Evolution isn't nearly so simple as to be able to be explained in a single forum post. It's not a finished theory. We're still learning new things every day about how exactly it works and what the subtleties are.
The evolutionary theory you hear in popular media is several years outdated and highly misinterpreted and because of that it's babble.
How has the theory of evolution has notably changed in the last few decades at all? Evolution doesn't require a single forum post to be explained, just one sentence:
"Evolution is the process of change in a biological population caused by only well-adapted organisms in a species surviving and reproducing, thus passing on their favourable characteristics to their offspring."
This is exactly the same theory postulated by Darwin over 150 years ago. All that has changed is that we now know how information is inherited, and sometimes mess up our interpretation of the data. The
results of evolution couldn't be explained in a single post, or probably an entire lifetime, but the
process definitely can.
The idea of science having a finished theory is a bit anathema, but evolution is one of the few things that should be considered a law of biology, simply because there is such overwhelming evidence, and there's been plenty of time to test it adequately.
OP: Humour is actually the most important ingredient, I've been told & read, but the others you've listed probably help. Athletic has an obvious evolutionary explanation, but can't say I know enough about the others to be of any help.