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- 22 Dec 2004
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That's quite a humorous and illuminating story, Maciamo. I remember as a child talking about Westerner's bodily hair, and its relation to evolution...sorry we were just kids !
Nobody taught us to think that way, but you know, things just clicked, at least so it seemed at the time. This goes to prove that humans love to see patterns, often in a manner that debases the "out-group" while keeping the intergrity of the "in-group." Another Asian myth about Westerners was that they were all tall, could never do a Tae-kwon-do kick properly, and could never learn to speak Korean very well. It took me going over and living among them to see that quite a few were actually very short, could do very good high kicks, and speak perfect Korean.
Well the same goes for the French. I was humiliated when the master of ceremonies at Moulin Rouge asked me to do a katate chop on stage. Do they really think all Asians are Japanese, and that all Japanese can do Karate chops ? Does it ever strike the French that I could be seriously offended by that kind of language when I'm there as a visitor ?
Questions as usual:
1. testosterone & hair: While it's true that within one genetically related kind group, more testosterone promotes faster cell division and protein systhesis. But are you sure the same holds true between different ethnic groups ? Couldn't different groups have developed different levels of testosterone sensitivity with the result that an equal level of testosterone can produce different muscle/hair growths ?
My understanding of the average European's skin pigmentation and excess bodily hair was due to the lower average temperature and the more cloudy weather conditions during the adaptive period. The fact that darker skin pigmentation would hinder adequate levels of vitamin D production to result in more occurences of rickets (hunchback; ヒ愿?┐C窶「a) is direct evidence of the average weather conditions of the early habitat affecting evolution. Thus heavier growth of hair must be explained by evolutionary adaptation, not by hormonal adjustment.
2. testosterone & analaytical reasoning: Do you have a source for this ? I've heard quite a few highly intelligent men tend NOT to be overly male--I don't know the mechanism behind this, but I was assuming that a lower level of testosterone could foster higher intelligence in a non-insignificant part of intelligent people.
3. Silence of the Lobsters: With euthanasian slaughtering of the lobsters, I'm sure the Aussies can sleep better now knwoing that no more lobsters wil crawl out of their TV sets because they wouldn't know who done it!
Nobody taught us to think that way, but you know, things just clicked, at least so it seemed at the time. This goes to prove that humans love to see patterns, often in a manner that debases the "out-group" while keeping the intergrity of the "in-group." Another Asian myth about Westerners was that they were all tall, could never do a Tae-kwon-do kick properly, and could never learn to speak Korean very well. It took me going over and living among them to see that quite a few were actually very short, could do very good high kicks, and speak perfect Korean.
Well the same goes for the French. I was humiliated when the master of ceremonies at Moulin Rouge asked me to do a katate chop on stage. Do they really think all Asians are Japanese, and that all Japanese can do Karate chops ? Does it ever strike the French that I could be seriously offended by that kind of language when I'm there as a visitor ?
Questions as usual:
1. testosterone & hair: While it's true that within one genetically related kind group, more testosterone promotes faster cell division and protein systhesis. But are you sure the same holds true between different ethnic groups ? Couldn't different groups have developed different levels of testosterone sensitivity with the result that an equal level of testosterone can produce different muscle/hair growths ?
My understanding of the average European's skin pigmentation and excess bodily hair was due to the lower average temperature and the more cloudy weather conditions during the adaptive period. The fact that darker skin pigmentation would hinder adequate levels of vitamin D production to result in more occurences of rickets (hunchback; ヒ愿?┐C窶「a) is direct evidence of the average weather conditions of the early habitat affecting evolution. Thus heavier growth of hair must be explained by evolutionary adaptation, not by hormonal adjustment.
2. testosterone & analaytical reasoning: Do you have a source for this ? I've heard quite a few highly intelligent men tend NOT to be overly male--I don't know the mechanism behind this, but I was assuming that a lower level of testosterone could foster higher intelligence in a non-insignificant part of intelligent people.
3. Silence of the Lobsters: With euthanasian slaughtering of the lobsters, I'm sure the Aussies can sleep better now knwoing that no more lobsters wil crawl out of their TV sets because they wouldn't know who done it!