"Ladies and gentlemen—" said the ballerina, reading the bulletin. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men.
Darwin’s theory on sexual selection: if an individual can survive with such obvious burdens, they must have strong genes to compensate and thus become an attractive mate. Here, degree of handicap—and thus, intelligence/skill/talent—might still prove advantageous?
