Yo I am studying for a test on evolution and genetics, and I am watching a seminar where the professor explains what women want and what men want according to scholars. I will give you guys a copy of my notes.
What Women Want in a Man
#1: Socual status
#2: Intelligence (Social intelligence)
#3: Humor (Interpreted as less intelligent and trustworthy but more socially savvy and empathic)
#4: Trustworthy emotional stability (sense of rhythm, use of voice(according to the professor you can tell a lot about a person's emotional stability just from their tone of voice))
#5: Athletically Built. Length correlates with firtility. Men with girlfriends are an inch taller than single men on average.
#6: Love, affection, willingness to invest
#7: Good Health (Symmetry face and body).
Sexual Selection = advertising good genes.
What Men Look For in Women
#1: Youth. Fertility, health, energy for care of elders
#2: Beauty, advertisement of good genes.(Babies of 3 months already react to facial symmetry)
So to summarize:
Men: Beauty is quick indicator for good genes.
Women: 'Combination-strategy': monogamous, but when in doubt about their partner's genes, they will get inseminated by another man (spreading risks).
According to the Liverpool-flat study, the chance that a man's "child" is not genetically his, is higher when the man is in doubt whether the child is theirs, and 5-15% of the children in the liverpool-flats were not genetic offspring of their "fathers".
What Women Want in a Man
#1: Socual status
#2: Intelligence (Social intelligence)
#3: Humor (Interpreted as less intelligent and trustworthy but more socially savvy and empathic)
#4: Trustworthy emotional stability (sense of rhythm, use of voice(according to the professor you can tell a lot about a person's emotional stability just from their tone of voice))
#5: Athletically Built. Length correlates with firtility. Men with girlfriends are an inch taller than single men on average.
#6: Love, affection, willingness to invest
#7: Good Health (Symmetry face and body).
Sexual Selection = advertising good genes.
What Men Look For in Women
#1: Youth. Fertility, health, energy for care of elders
#2: Beauty, advertisement of good genes.(Babies of 3 months already react to facial symmetry)
So to summarize:
Men: Beauty is quick indicator for good genes.
Women: 'Combination-strategy': monogamous, but when in doubt about their partner's genes, they will get inseminated by another man (spreading risks).
According to the Liverpool-flat study, the chance that a man's "child" is not genetically his, is higher when the man is in doubt whether the child is theirs, and 5-15% of the children in the liverpool-flats were not genetic offspring of their "fathers".