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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

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We Compete for Mates Using Language

Mating strategies is one of the cool features that made humans what they are. We compete for mates using language, and that includes sending signals to the person we're trying to attract Using language, verbal fluency, and obviously some more recent things like poetry. But also we use language to derogate our competitors. Who we have as a mate is also a reflection of our own status.

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