Word: loincloth
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...think of Ben Stiller's spoof on you at the Oscars? It was great. We got a kick out of it. Jim Cameron leaned over to me as it happened and said, That's the reason we did it in CG. Having me running around painted blue in a loincloth - well, that's why we did it motion-capture...
Kanazawa offers this view of how such novel values sprang up in our ancestors: Imagine you are a caveman (if it helps, you are wearing a loincloth and have never shaved). Lightning strikes a tree near your cave, and fire threatens. What do you do? Natural selection would have favored the smart specimen who could quickly conceive answers to such a problem (or other rare catastrophes like sudden drought or flood), even if - or maybe especially if - those answers were unusual ones that few others in your tribe could generate. So, the theory goes, genes for intelligence got wrapped...