{"id":599,"date":"2011-06-14T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2011-06-14T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:57:06","slug":"all-boy-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/all-boy-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"All boy dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peacocks participating in a lek reminds me of high school dances. An all boy high school would extend a number of invitations to other schools to join them for a dance party. These schools were of the all female variety, allowing a small group of young men to a wide selection of young women. In leks, a group of peacocks perform in front of a bunch of female spectators, seemingly giving them all an advantageous platform to show off their strengths. Cruelly, however, usually only one or two peacocks clearly seem to be a worthy hottie, and they are the ones that attract a disproportionate number of peahens.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a bad dancer or weren&#8217;t born with the best tail feathers, why would you ever participate in a lek? To very altruistically make that handsome peacock look a lot better?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_600\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/peasketch_blog_cl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600\" title=\"peasketch_blog_cl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/peasketch_blog_cl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/peasketch_blog_cl.jpg 455w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/peasketch_blog_cl-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ball point pen<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Perhaps the answer lies in the Price equation, where your inclination to help another is based on how closely related you are to your kin. The males who participate in a lek are all related, so really, by helping them find a good wife(\/wives) at least some of your genes will be passed on.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a boy from a single sex school, you&#8217;d want to pride yourself in belonging to a school known for the best parties and most successful guys. Or the hottest high school girl in the world is dating a guy from your chemistry class!<\/p>\n<p>-Christie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peacocks participating in a lek reminds me of high school dances. An all boy high school would extend a number of invitations to other schools to join them for a dance party. These schools were of the all female variety, allowing a small group of young men to a wide selection of young women. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}