Posted
12/22/2005 05:03:00 PM
by Douglas
My greatest fears have been proven! The Baptists were
right!It's true, dancing does lead to sex
The finding lends support to the idea that dancing is a way to show off high quality genes and good health - both indicators of a top quality mate.
In a study published yesterday in the journal Nature, William Brown, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, looked at how dancing ability correlated with a person's body symmetry, a typical measure of the quality of a mate in evolutionary biology.
Professor Brown found that symmetrical men were evaluated as significantly better dancers than asymmetric ones. Likewise, men preferred the dances of symmetrical women, although this effect was not as marked, suggesting women are more choosy in selecting mates.
Boy, who could put a hole in that bulletproof logic. Yeah, it's the dancing, and not the $1 kamikazes and the fact that the act is usually engaged in by horny 19 year olds.