http://www.iSteve.com/05JanA.htm#parental.selection
From the NYT:
Judith Rich Harris
        Writer and developmental psychologist; author, "The Nurture Assumption"
        I believe, though I cannot prove it, that three - not two - selection processes were involved in human evolution.
       
The first two are familiar: natural selection, which selects for fitness, and sexual selection, which selects for sexiness.
       
The third process selects for beauty, but not sexual beauty - not adult beauty. The ones doing the selecting weren't potential mates: they were parents. Parental selection, I call it.
 
 
 
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