Psy-Kosh comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 22 February 2010 06:00:20AM 0 points [-]

Hrm... that at least brings up a possibility... Any chance that there's much higher variance in the appearance of baby bunnies than in baby humans? In that case "find the cutest" rather than "find average" might go rather farther with bunnies than humans.

Comment author: wnoise 22 February 2010 07:07:45AM *  2 points [-]

Well, there was a supposed ~10000 humans bottleneck, not too far ago, evolutionarily speaking, so humans really do have less variance than many species.

Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 06:38:35AM 0 points [-]

Probably not variance that's easily detectable to humans.