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

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Why Men Prefer Physical Attraction More Than Women

There's a lot of characteristics in this very complex optimization problem for women. So then I turned to the men, and I said, well, what do men want? And then I run out of space after about a blackboard and a half because they can't think of anything else. For men, it's physical attract and this physical appearance and youth are the two real big ones. Men prioritize those more than women do. But fertility cannot be observed directly. It can use some cues exactly,. There are cues that are probabilistically related to this underlying quality of fertility which we can't observe directly.

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