Paul Burridge wrote:
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:18:00 GMT, Roy McCammon
wrote:

Heck, I thought her strategy was to latch on to the
best provider and then during that small period of maximum
fertility sneak out and laid by the biggest baddest stud
available.

I assume your comment is made in jest, but there *are* wimmin out
there who will do this.

No its not in jest. There has really been a good deal of real research
done on this. In fact, the was a TV program on it the other day. The
researches get women to rate people based on attractiveness. There are
well studied features that relate facial features and behaviour, for
example "manly" or "caring" characteristics. They show that during the
critical ovulation period, women much prefer the manly faces rather then
the caring faces, and visa versa doing other times.

Of course, women don't generally do this consciously, but it is the way
it is. As I said, whatever strategy results in the best Replicators, is
what we observe.

And to Roy, it occurred to me that you may have misunderstood my comment
on "women selects", I was of course, meaning selects to have sex with,
not as a long term partner.

Kevin Aylward

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