Andrew Wayne Austin wrote:
> List,
>
> Nobody I know in the scientific community claims that Homo sapiens are not
> animals. I don't think that Alan Spector advances a position claiming that
> they are something other than animals. These slogans of Jay Hansen's -
> strawman and hyperbole - are rhetorical devices, mere segue into hacked
> and uncritically assimilated materials cut and pasted from web files that
> either support, or are made to appear to support, Jay's reactionism.
> (snip)
Well overall said.
> Who is Philippe Rushton? He claims that there is an evolutionary
> trade-off between head size and penis size and that this explains why,
> according to him, black people have big penises and small heads.
If brain size and a bigger head to contain it are indications of
evolveddevelopment then we sure have a problem. Seems that I read somewhere
both Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal had bigger brains than modern man.
Could it be we are descended from something less appealing, like snakes
perhaps. Some of the "ideology" that is sometimes quoted makes one
wonder so.
I will follow the argument where it may:
Head size is not determined by the size of the penis. It is determined by the
size of the vaginal channel.(The brain cannot be fully developed in humans
at birth due to this effect. It means that a child needs longer nurturing to
survive. It does not mean that culture develops automatically from this
event.)
A larger vagina would allow bigger headed children. And so more brain
therefore more intelligence. A larger vagina would mean a selection for larger
"penised" men since smaller penises implies reduced sexual pleasure from
at least one partner.
QED Gifted men should be sought among the more endowed. I wonder if
anyone will do some research on Einstein or Mozart fathers dicks.
> Andy
Regards;
Judge