Body Hot Spots
by R. Dale Guthrie
First published 1976
The zoologist, professor and writer R Dale Guthrie writes
well on the way humans (and other animals) establish status and attract mates.
Our physical signals and behaviours originating in childhood are discussed in
insightful ways. The ‘body hot spots’ are features that have evolved to improve
an individual's chances of producing offspring that survive to breed a third
generation. He examines how visual status and ‘organs’ can help with threat
displays, copulatory lures and the facilitation of cooperation, and how the
antithesis of these can also be advantageous.