[extropy-chat] RE: Re: Intelligent Design and IrriducibleComplexity

[Hara Ra]

>the attractiveness-optimized female humans have breasts
>that are larger than necessary to feed their infants.  The
>optimized males have larger than necessary pectorals, almost
>comically enlarged.

>Not just pectorals. I am sure an effecive penis enlargement would be worth 
>billions)


>most outstanding example of overdesign would be our rears.
>Both genders seem to prefer mates with protruding buns, resulting
>in those curvatious protruding asses.
>
>The point of this essay is to introduce the notion that
>we developed large brains for the same reason that we
>developed large asses.  A
>striking example is an African tribe that decided that
>wide hips were cool.  group with
>anomalously small trunks with enormous hips.  Perhaps
>someone here knows the name of that hip group.

Hottentots

In a hot climate fat storage was in the rear (there's a word
steatopyga ('stee-uh-toe-PIE-guh) for this. Google Images for "big Black 
Booty" and here and there you will find examples. I read once that some of 
the Hottentot women had 2-3 wide cheeks and needed help to stand up. If you 
have a good image of same email it to me (privately) Attached is a little 
11K jpg of same.

The end of armor came with the crossbow, whose quarrel could penetrate any 
wearable armor. Only recently the kevlar type vests have came back, but 
they can't withstand rifle shots, only pistols. Remember also in the armor 
days it was mostly iron. Steel was reserved for swords, and carbon steel 
was both very rare and brittle. A knight unseated from his horse could not 
afford the fragmentation of carbon steel.

In the military, the body vests are mostly for low velocity shrapnel and 
low caliber assault weapons. they are useless against sniper fire. 
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