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Standards of beauty and mate competition
21:30 - 32:02 (10:31)
Biological cues to youth, health, and fertility like clear skin, full lips, and small waist-hip ratio contribute to the standards of beauty in women. In a competitive process of mating, desirable mates are difficult to find, making mate attraction and poaching still prevalent post-mate selection.
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Humans compete for mates using language and devote significant effort to building and maintaining reputations.
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Summary
Humans compete for mates using language and devote significant effort to building and maintaining reputations. Such competition is especially evident during mate selection, where a desirable mate is in scarce supply relative to the number of people seeking them.
ChapterStandards of beauty and mate competition
Episode#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
There are predictable standards of beauty that are not arbitrary, such as cues to youth, clear skin, full lips, lustrous hair, and a small waist-hip ratio which is a cue to youth and fertility.
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Summary
There are predictable standards of beauty that are not arbitrary, such as cues to youth, clear skin, full lips, lustrous hair, and a small waist-hip ratio which is a cue to youth and fertility. These standards have evolved biologically to be part of our attraction to others.