Comments on: “Dad Dancing” May Be The Result Of Evolution, Scientists Claim

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:03:25 +0000

This is stupid. There are men who are bad dancers / men with undesirable reproductive materials at at age. Granted, the “yuck” factor increase exponentialy a man reach middle / dancing dad age but I’ve seen unattractive guys that were young. It’s not just the old geezers.

By: Elephants Child

Elephants Child — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:03:28 +0000

What utter nonsense !

Most middle aged & older men are perfectly fertile – remember Picasso ?
Older men who are bad dancers were probably always bad dancers, they just no longer feel the need to hide it because they have given up trying to attract a mate.
Not all young men are good dancers & how well you dance has relationship to how fertile you are.
If dancing is all about breeding potential, why are so many gay men (not usually looking for a breeding mate)
great at dancing ?

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:09:21 +0000

So when I stop dancing I will attract more women! Now this is useful knowledge

By: Paul Crowley

Paul Crowley — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:49:37 +0000

Doesn't this assume group selection?

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:22:05 +0000

Ha ha maybe that’s true but their dancing is a like magnet for anyone who happens to have any video recording equipment….. (You Tube or You’ve Been Framed anyone? )

LC x

By: OtherMike

OtherMike — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:15:30 +0000

Isn’t it the alpha male’s way of saying he doesn’t need to try?

By: Choc

Choc — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:18:30 +0000

This would only make sense if young men where all great dancers. Since they are most certainly not:) its a load of nonsense I think.

By: denice stout

denice stout — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:59:08 +0000

hahaha I’m SO sending this to my dad

By: Sailor

Sailor — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:10:19 +0000

Very hard to see how bad dancing would be selected for in evolution, especially in males with little impregnating potential left. Whoever wrote this seems to have been seduced by the idea of group rather than individual selection.

By: Ms G

Ms G — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:17:55 +0000

My little cousin of 5 does have moves which def. would be seen upon as sexual peeking on the dancefloor when he had been older … Elvis .. Michael Jackson … shake those hips … hump the counter …. We older people then sort of chuckle … we are no longer allowed to make that moves in the middle of the crowd, let alone in a supermarket … And then he wraps his arms around my hips, looking up with big bright eyes … Who do you think female like best?