Why Sexy Is Sexy
Hank delves into the scientific reasons behind why we are attracted to the people we're attracted to. It's complicated. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow...
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Anyone, or anything, that reproduces sexuallyis constantly thinking to itself"Who am I gonna mate with?"We spend a lot of time thinking about mate choicebecause passing on your genes early and often is how you win at being alive.From an evolutionary standpoint,it's the most important thing you will ever do, if you do it.And due to its extreme importance,it's also very complicated, you may have noticed.Our general understanding of it comes from Charles Darwinwho proposed that some individuals get more action than othersbecause of sexual selection.You've heard of it.One gender of a species consistently prefers mates with specific traitsso individuals with those traits pass their genes on more oftenand spread their genes, and th...
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Anyone, or anything, that reproduces sexuallyis constantly thinking to itself"Who am I gonna mate with?"We spend a lot of time thinking about mate choicebecause passing on your genes early and often is how you win at being alive.From an evolutionary standpoint,it's the most important thing you will ever do, if you do it.And due to its extreme importance,it's also very complicated, you may have noticed.Our general understanding of it comes from Charles Darwinwho proposed that some individuals get more action than othersbecause of sexual selection.You've heard of it.One gender of a species consistently prefers mates with specific traitsso individuals with those traits pass their genes on more oftenand spread their genes, and th...
