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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] OK, Tora, without recounting about a month of a semester-long personality psychology course, I'll try to summarize the reasoning of David Buss as best I can. An assumption of evolutionary psychology is that we have not progressed much beyond our hunter/gatherer days that comprise over 95% of human existence. That said, men and women both are looking for certain characteristics in their mates that will facilitate the passing on of his or her own genes into as many reproductions of one's self as possible. Men, who expend comparitively few resources in reproductive machinery (the penis, testicles, and several milliliters of semen made in a few hours), are looking to mate with as many women as possible who will safely bear children into the world and then be able to rear them into self-sufficient adults. Therefore, men (ideally) look to have sex with as many women as they can (so it may be said that men can be pigs [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] ). Men look for a waist/hip ratio of 0.66 indicating the woman's ability to carry a child. They look for well formed breasts that can produce sufficient amounts of milk. Men look for women who show no outward signs of disease (blotchy skin, physical deformities, clear eyes, especially the whites, etc.) and are athleticly fit but with enough body fat that childbearing will not pose a health risk (i.e. not heavy-built or muscular, but curvy). They also look for women who are faithful and will not mate with other men behind their back. However, since women over the long run require monogamy, men look for the [i]most[/i] ideal women when they can not mate with multiple women. Therefore, to maximize their children's capacity for survival, they look for the most intelligent women that can impart the most techniques for later use. Women expend comparatively large amounts of resources in reproduction (a large reproductive system and nine months of childbearing) and therfore look for the best candidates for children so they can get it right the first time and not expend resources on children who have little chance of survival. Women look for men who are physically fit and do not display outward signs of genetic deformity, again, clear skin, muscular build, and low occurrence of disease. They also look for men who have more exaggerrated masculine features indicating earlier onset of puberty and fertility (the reverse goes for men too). Women, who spend much more time in the hunting gathering group while men are off hunting, look for social protection from group rivals. Therefore they look for men who have competence in appropriating resources from the group in large enough quantities to support children. Over the long term, women, like men, understand that intelligence is correlated with survival and choose mates with higher intelligence then other group members and who use it toward garnering more resources. Buss's conclusions are that men's emphasis on women's physical attractiveness is a deep seeded instinct to maximise the survival of the species. A woman who most men consider attractive is also the one who is likely to produce the most offspring. Buss also states that the women's emphasis on a man's fidelity and wallet are evolutionary strategies to ensuring the survival of the species too. Buss conducted his major study on many different cultures to see if these characterisitics are shared by members of each sex in different areas of the world (37 different cultures I think). Some have criticisized his research saying that women are in disadvantaged positions all over the world. to counter this criticism, Buss did a content analysis of lovers' ads in the paper of rich women to find what they were looking for. To skip to the chase, he found that rich older women were not looking for a young stud, but still looked for a rich older man who would provide for them, should they have any children. Buss's work has shown very strong evidence that many of the sexual and reproductive behavior we engage in are consistent across time and location, and that knowing how they work can lend insight into many of the frustrations we experience as sexual beings. If you have anymore questions, feel free to post them. I've probably left out stuff that people would like to know more about, but I can't think of much more to say in a first draft summary of a huge and encompassing theory that is still in its growth. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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