Did you know that men die younger because they have to fight to find a mate? They pay the ultimate price to get women – their life!
Read this story on Yahoo! that explains! Scientists have studies various male species and say that it was recognized as early as the 18th century that the life span of males is shorter.
Human males don’t always have to wrestle to get a woman these days, but the pressure to succeed sexually hasn’t changed much, the researchers argue. Only the methods have been revised.
Now, if you buy all this logic, here’s the critical part: To impress women, men remain prone to risky behavior, just as they have been for millennia and just as other male animals are.
In caveman days, being good with a club was one way to get a mate. Now, the ability to purchase a blinged-out SUV has similar value, the scientists suggest.
So if you smoke / drive rash / get into a fight – you now know why you do that!
While you are reading the story, also check out The Rules of Attraction in the Game of Love. And if you are a geek, I am sure you would love the book covers of Understanding Girls for Geeks!
Good read for Friday morning 😉
Read the Naked Ape or even more accurately the Mating Mind.
Macho is essentially defined as posturing and acting in ways which disfavour survival but favours sexual reproduction. In other words, self destructive stuff that gets you chicks.
It only works because there’s an obvious signal that cannot be easily faked (“I smoke and I smoke, but my lungs are so big that I can still ***k”) and then an arbitrary bias (aka cool) in the female perception.
It works for peacocks, I guess mating minds suggests that it works a human too (hint: women prefer intelligent men).