Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Men and women mate selection

Women use a set of inputs to determine if a man is a suitable mate. It's difficult to quantify with a number, but you can imagine about 100. Examples are height, symmetry, geometric properties of face, muscles, posture, problem solving ability, speech clarity, interaction with children, ability to take care of a plant. They also check indications of interest. Does the man think about her, consider her well being, exhibit jealousy (this can be a positive indicator). A woman needs to check all of these before investing time in having a child with a man (in the stone age). However a man does not really. He only needs to mate with fertile women, so his checks are different.

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