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

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Is There a Small Pool of Desirable Mates?

We have evolved adaptations part of our psychology is to detect differences. I was sitting around watching a Miss America beauty contest and people were saying, boy, did you see Miss North Carolina? What a dog. Beauty is only skin deep. You know, don't judge people on the superficial characteristics. But in fact, physical appearance provides a wealth of information about the health status of someone there or their physical form of ability. We have form of ability, assessment, adaptations, and then fertility as well. So there are a very predictable set of cues to fertility that have evolved to be part of our standards of attractiveness. And they're not arbitrary. There are some culturally arbitrary things, but standards of

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