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From: jack@molbio.med.miami.edu (Jack Kramer)
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Subject: Re: Further Evolving Eyebrows
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Date: 4 Nov 90 01:20:21 GMT
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In article <4278@lib.tmc.edu> mitchell@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Philip Mitchel) writes:
>
>I'm curious... why is it that fur loss is surely due to sexual, not natural
>selection?  How much of a body's resources would it take to keep that
>-- 
>Phil Mitchell                                 mitchell@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu
>

I'm curious.  I thought there were only natural and artificial selection
processes.  Why isn't sexual selection a natural process when it occurs
in natural populations in the wild that are not under the control of
human breeders?