Shocking, shocking news

[andrewducker]

Women choose wealthy partners, men choose sexy ones. - one wonders what the conflation between "wealthy" and "good at something" is in that study.
Also Kissing means more to women than men - apparently women use kissing to assess the person they're kissing. Which strikes me as a good reason why so many women end up with appalling partners.

Comments

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I knew I shouldn't follow that first link.

While humans may pride themselves on being highly evolved, most still behave like the stereotypical Neanderthals when it comes to choosing a mate.

What utter, utter bollocks. People from a society where they are told from a young age that looks are important when men chose partners and money is important for women, when put into an nonsense situation[1] act on this message. This proves fuck all about evolution.

[1]is speed dating in any way like how mate selection has been done over evolutionary time? I don't think so.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

never been speed dating, but it takes me no more than one good look at someone (in motion) to decide whether I'd be willing to have sex with them - subject to a close up check for smell etc.

it was a stupid way to phrase it (not east cos we have very little idea about neanderthal social behaviour), and cultural influences do have some effect, but there are physically based reasons why males and females might have differently weighted priorities in mate selection, since breeding is more resource-draining on a female.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

For a start I don't think the authors ever actually met any neanderthrals, let alone enough to make a judgement on what would constitute a stereotypical one.