Interesting. Clearly modern women are in denial of their own biological attraction filters. Ideally they want a handsome, tall, strong, muscular, fit, wealthy, sensitive, kind, clean, fashionable, talented and decisive man that gives up all control of his life to her while he also maintains her ongoing respect and attraction.
Yes of course but now we need to see how tinder and in general the digital age is impairing and obscuring these natural sorting and selecting mechanisms ...
Great article. When you say "[The monkey dance] is more likely to occur when there is an open question about who would prevail in a physical contest. Which is why monkey dances generally occur between strangers rather than men who are familiar with one another" do you have empirical evidence for this? I would bet that for most of human evolution monkey dances probably almost never occurred between strangers. Questions about physical dominance occur naturally in a group as time passes and the top males age out of their prime. Using constrained and 'fair' fights like the monkey dance to get accurate estimates of fighting ability would only have been evolutionarily beneficial for deciding within-group hierarchies, where the guy who wins is likely closely genetically related to the guy who loses, and the group as a whole benefits when the warriors and hunters are chosen meritocratically. I don't see a benefit in measuring yourself in a monkey dance against a stranger who is "similar in physicality and age", even if you come out on top, this doesn't give you another subordinate since they're a stranger and not part of your group.
The Male Monkey Dance
Interesting. Clearly modern women are in denial of their own biological attraction filters. Ideally they want a handsome, tall, strong, muscular, fit, wealthy, sensitive, kind, clean, fashionable, talented and decisive man that gives up all control of his life to her while he also maintains her ongoing respect and attraction.
Yes of course but now we need to see how tinder and in general the digital age is impairing and obscuring these natural sorting and selecting mechanisms ...
Great article. When you say "[The monkey dance] is more likely to occur when there is an open question about who would prevail in a physical contest. Which is why monkey dances generally occur between strangers rather than men who are familiar with one another" do you have empirical evidence for this? I would bet that for most of human evolution monkey dances probably almost never occurred between strangers. Questions about physical dominance occur naturally in a group as time passes and the top males age out of their prime. Using constrained and 'fair' fights like the monkey dance to get accurate estimates of fighting ability would only have been evolutionarily beneficial for deciding within-group hierarchies, where the guy who wins is likely closely genetically related to the guy who loses, and the group as a whole benefits when the warriors and hunters are chosen meritocratically. I don't see a benefit in measuring yourself in a monkey dance against a stranger who is "similar in physicality and age", even if you come out on top, this doesn't give you another subordinate since they're a stranger and not part of your group.