And your job is not to, like, figure out how you can... Figure out why everything serves to meet your needs. It's figuring out what the system that you operate in is, so that you can get out of it what you want, right? Yeah, it's just like, you know, to navigate through space, you need a map of the surrounding area to navigate through human mating. You need a map that goes back in time. You need a kind of time map of where are you now? How did you get here? How did women get where they are? And civilization is just a tiny little veneer on top of millions of years of instinct. But most guys misunderstand prehistory. They misunderstand the instincts. They don't really have an accurate picture of, you know, caveman life. And that's a problem, because they think, well, the instincts can only do this or that, and then everything else that happens, it's all complicated, is a new invention. No, no, no. Mating for humans, for all social primates has been complicated already for tens of millions of years. Alright, so let's deal with one thing I think a lot of guys don't understand. A lot of people don't understand. Most people when they think of evolution, they think of natural selection. Meaning that, like, either you get the food or, you know, you get food or you are food, right? That makes total sense. People usually understand that. What people don't really understand, a lot of people is sexual selection, right? So can you explain a little bit, sort of, for a layman, what is sexual selection and why is it important to this discussion? Yeah, so natural selection is typical survival of the fittest. How do you eat food, avoid being eaten by predator, avoid being eaten from the inside by parasites and pathogens? Those are the big ecological challenges, right? It's about the energy cycles that you're engaged in. How do you keep your body going? How do you get energy to sustain life and grow? Sexual selection is different. It's about how do you reproduce, how do you pass on your genes? How do you, if you're a male, get females pregnant, hopefully the maximum quantity and quality of females? If it's females, how do you choose the best mates you can who are going to give you good genes, be good parents, be good partners? And you can survive for thousands of years and process all the calories you want, but if you never reproduce, you're an evolutionary dead end. Your genes do not pass on. So sexual selection looks like it's just kind of icing on the cake, but actually, for sexually reproducing species, like us, and like all the millions of other mammals, reptiles, birds, it's abs, every animal bigger than a millimeter in length is sexually reproducing. All of that mating parenting is absolutely crucial and survival without mating is pointless. So that's sexual selection. It's how you're shaped in terms of your body, your mind, your behavior to be sexually attractive to get mates. So the basic idea is that for most living creatures, past a certain point, staying alive isn't super difficult. It's always a struggle every day, but it's a struggle that you generally have solved. Then the question becomes sort of how do you pass your genes on, which is a very different sort of struggle.