[ExI] IQ and beauty

[Tara Maya]

A alternative theory is that it was sexual competition among human males trying to prove the most badass hunters to impress human females that actually drove the elk to extinction.

Elk females had a good reason not to go to extremes in their demands for larger antlers, but humans had no reason to be reasonable. We have plenty of evidence of humans hunting other megafauna to extinction for ridiculous, short-sighted reasons.

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> On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:50 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19 October 2015 at 17:53, rex  wrote:
>> But you have yet to provide a single example of selection driving a species
>> to extinction. Anything less than that is mere hand-waving -- a popular
>> activity in the social "sciences" -- IMO.
>> 
>> No, the Irish elk is NOT even a quasi-established example, regardless of how many
>> times it's mentioned in repeated arm-waving arguments.
>> 
> 
> Apparently both mammoths and the giant elk survived successfully for
> hundreds of thousands of years and both survived the last Ice Age.
> When climate and habitat changed and hunter humans appeared they died
> out.
> 
> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1006_041006_giant_deer.html>
> 
> Quote:
> Extinct Giant Deer Survived Ice Age, Study Says
> 
> James Owen in London
> for National Geographic News  October 6, 2004
> 
> Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many
> other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around
> the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
> 
> More recently, however, evidence has emerged that at least two of the
> spectacular megafauna of the Pleistocene era (1.6 million to 10,000
> years ago) clung on until recent times.
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> 
> 
> 
> BillK
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