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#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love

Modern Wisdom

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What's the Show Off Hypothesis?

It's about look, Robin competent with Robin. That's what it's called the show off hypothesis. This is a two way game. This is not a game played by one sex and the other sex just sits there and does nothing. We don't know what happened below 18 because that becomes minor minors so nobody ever talks about them. But from 18 onwards, what you find is that the girls start very quickly calling a particular number who is when you check who that is. It takes about three years before the male starts to reciprocate or put a female his age in pole position.

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