Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Optimal difference for sexual attraction

Too much the same and you have inbreeding problems. Too much different and you may not even produce fertile offspring (horse and donkey). Just enough difference can produce really healthy offspring, an effect known as heterogenous vigor. This is why people are attracted to the other. This is why foreign languages are sexy. It's also why people often marry similar races. They look for different, but not extremely different mates.

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