Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA01502 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 25 May 2000 03:52:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:50:00 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: TJ Olney <market@cc.wwu.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Shaving In-Reply-To: <200005242315.TAA10204@mail5.lig.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005241942250.-49314761-100000@Starship051.cbe.wwu.edu> X-X-Sender: market@voyager.cbe.wwu.edu Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Does anyone have any references for the history of shaving and/or for any
sociobiological explanations for how shaving (male and/or female) would
be or even could be a reproductive advantage?
Put another way, are shaving customs, clearly memetically transmitted
behaviors, purely memetic?
Are they perhaps an example of a memeplex that confers genetic advantage
through sexual selection only after the memeplex is widespread?
TJ Olney
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