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From: coray@nucsrl.UUCP (Elizabeth)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Why are Humans as Smart as They Are?
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 01:47:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 01:47:39 1987
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>>What was the environmental pressure that made us THIS smart?  And, why not 
>>smarter?

>>One theory that has been put forward is that, at some stage, our ancestors
>>were not the only species specializing in being bright, and the two rival
>>species "fought it out", each pushing the other to be cleverer.  Finally,
>>WE WON...

You got it.  It was the war between the sexes that did it, and women lost.
That's why we're so short... and you're so dumb.

M. Elizabeth Corey (soon to be extinct)