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August 26, 2010
Researchers found a woman having an "hourglass" shaped figure was more important for a man than her breast size or facial features. 
August 19, 2010
When a woman is ovulating, her behavior changes in a startling number of ways from the way she walks, talks and dresses to the men she flirts with.
August 5, 2010
Ovulating women unconsciously dress to impress—doing so not to impress men, but to outdo rival women during the handful of days each month when they are ovulating.
August 2, 2010
What could be as alluring as a lady in red? Perhaps a gentleman in red.
July 27, 2010
Please can you help me with an embarrassing problem which I can't seem to control that annoys my boyfriend (and my previous one too). I talk more than him and can't seem to stop myself, especially when I'm excited or happy.
July 7, 2010
Researchers have linked rejection by a romantic partner to brain activity associated with motivation, reward and addiction cravings.
July 2, 2010
How fast you can judge whether a person of the opposite sex is looking at you depends on how masculine or feminine they look.
July 2, 2010
Women with smaller feet have prettier faces, at least according to the men who took part in this study. So do women with longer thigh bones and narrower hips, as well as women who are taller overall.
June 8, 2010
Many people like to think they have discriminating tastes when it comes to romantic interests. However, men and women are greatly influenced not only by what their friends think of their potential fling or relationship partner, but also by the opinions of complete strangers.
May 14, 2010
Male physical competition, not attraction, was central in winning mates among human ancestors.
May 7, 2010
Body art may be evidence of high-quality genes in men.
April 14, 2010
First established by Darwin in 1876, heterosis is a biological phenomenon that predicts that cross-breeding leads to offspring that are genetically fitter than their parents, and humans may also be subject to its influence.
March 17, 2010
Scottish scientists report that women living in countries with worse rates of disease and ill health are far likelier to head for masculine-looking men than feminine-looking rivals.
March 15, 2010
With half of all first marriages ending in divorce, how can we build lasting relationships?
March 10, 2010
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is vital to the immune system. The more diverse the genes of the MHC, the more it confers disease resistance, and individuals with diverse MHCs are more likely to be chosen as a sexual partner.
March 3, 2010
Researchers found they take greater risks in order to impress and as a result become more accident prone.
February 19, 2010
How is a female avatar supposed to get a fair treatment in the virtual world? They should rely on human females—men can't help but be swayed by looks.
February 18, 2010
Signs of altruism have an enormous effect on women looking for a boyfriend.
February 17, 2010
Researchers reportedly claim some of the secrets of attraction appear to be hidden in certain immune system genes inherited from our parents.
February 15, 2010
That's the conclusion of recent brain scan studies, which are starting to reveal that deciding who we find attractive—even on a purely superficial level—is a much more complex process than an instinctual reaction.
February 11, 2010
Wedding ceremonies evolved to make family and friends feel emotionally involved with the couple so they will help raise their children, research suggests.
January 27, 2010
Women feel more betrayed if their partner falls in love with someone else than if he is simply unfaithful, claims a new study. Men feel more let down by a partner's sexual indiscretions.
January 13, 2010
Women around the world spend billions of dollars each year on exotic smelling perfumes and lotions in the hopes of attracting a mate. However, according to a new study, going "au natural" may be the best way to capture a potential mate's attention.
January 11, 2010
Research has documented that most men become much more jealous about sexual infidelity than they do about emotional infidelity. Women are the opposite, and this is true all over the world. Just why is not fully understood.
January 8, 2010
Genetically modified prairie voles may illuminate the human condition.
January 5, 2010
New research finds that men's reports of feeling sexually aroused tend to match their physiological responses, while women's mind and body responses are less aligned.
January 4, 2010
Conspicuous consumption (for men) and conspicuous charity (for women) can function strategically as a form of mating display.
January 4, 2010
The smell of a man's sweat differs according to what mood he is in and women can pick up on changes that indicate attraction.
December 18, 2009
Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden.
December 16, 2009
Marriage really is good for you, with a major international study finding it reduces the risks of depression and anxiety, but these disorders are more likely to plague people once the relationship is over.
December 9, 2009
Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time
December 7, 2009
The burning question is why same-sex behaviour would evolve at all when it runs counter to evolutionary principles. But does it?
December 2, 2009
From a biological perspective, the "adaptive function" of the female orgasm is still hotly contested.
November 25, 2009
The world's largest species of monkey 'chooses' mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring.
November 20, 2009
Next time you catch a stranger's eye and feel a surge of attraction, here's something to ponder: is your ardour based partly on shared genetic ancestry?
November 17, 2009
Striking the right balance between revealing too much and being too conservative in how much skin is on show has long been a dilemma for women when choosing the right outfit for a night out.
October 26, 2009
Men should marry a woman who is cleverer than they are and at least five years younger, if they want the relationship to stand the best chance of lasting.
October 16, 2009
Since Darwin's time, biologists have tried to understand the advantages of sexual reproduction. This is not trivial because there are clear disadvantages to sex.
October 8, 2009
The pill alters monthly fluctuations in hormones associated with the menstrual cycle and this might disrupt the natural processes which influence women's choice of partner.
October 2, 2009
Buried among the slew of papers about the new find is one about the creature's sex life. It makes fascinating reading.
September 30, 2009
Flirting with an attractive woman really does make men feel good, scientists find, as they discover it causes a surge in health-giving hormones.
September 24, 2009
When it comes to love, we Homo sapiens are a peculiar breed.
September 22, 2009
Women are much choosier than men when it comes to romance. This is well known, but the reason for this gender difference is unclear.
September 11, 2009
Having an attractive mate on your arm makes you look more attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex.
September 3, 2009
Research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.
September 1, 2009
Scientists report compelling evidence that at least in some non-Western cultures where conditions are harsh and mothers must fight to keep their children alive, serial monogamy is by no means a man’s game.
August 17, 2009
Women: do you have a man? If you do, better beware. Chances are that some lone female has her eye on him.
August 17, 2009
Men are far more interested in casual sex than women. While men need to be exceptionally attractive to tempt women to consider casual sex, men are far less choosy.
August 3, 2009
What's so great about sex? From an evolutionary perspective, the answer is not as obvious as one might think.
July 9, 2009
As generations of men with two left feet have learned to their cost, having the dance floor prowess of Mr Bean is no help in the mating game.
July 7, 2009
In recent years, the emergence of speed dating has given psychologists, economists and political scientists new ways to test hypotheses about mating.
July 7, 2009
What's so great about sex? From an evolutionary perspective, the answer is not as obvious as one might think.
June 15, 2009
The issue isn't just explaining why almost all plants and animals engage in sex. It is also explaining why the life forms that ruled the planet for billions of years and remain by far the most abundant—the bacteria—manage fine without it.
June 12, 2009
Men prefer averagely shaped women, according to a study that compared the body shapes of ordinary women, Playboy centrefolds and professional escorts.
June 10, 2009
In places where young women outnumber young men, research shows the hemlines rise but the marriage rates don't because the young men feel less pressure to settle down as more women compete for their affections.
June 3, 2009
Skinny men have new reason to celebrate. Well, kind of. Beefcakes may be able to attract women by rippling their muscles, but the downside of all that brawn is a poor immune system and an increased appetite.
May 29, 2009
A woman's partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex.
May 26, 2009
The bond of true love may be forged in the genes as well as in the mind.
May 7, 2009
"The alleles of my Major Histocompatibility Complex are completely opposite from yours," might not sound like pillow talk, but it is the literal basis for the "chemistry" many couples have.
April 7, 2009
Women may be better at sniffing out biologically relevant information from underarm sweat.
March 27, 2009
Psychologists proved what car-dealers have boasted for generations the car one drives is key when it comes to turning a woman's head.
March 5, 2009
Attraction can make enemies of the brain and the heart.
February 18, 2009
Go ahead. Kiss the girl. And you might make it a wet one, because scientists who are starting to understand the biochemistry of kisses say that saliva increases sex drive.
February 17, 2009
This Valentine's Day, researchers have some new answers to the perennial question of what men and women want in a partner.
February 9, 2009
A built-in aversion to attractive members of the opposite sex may help cement monogamous relationships.
February 4, 2009
The vagaries of paternity have led men to sharply categorize women—even in a hookup culture—but women can get savvy about this male propensity.
February 2, 2009
Psychologists have found that adult females who have prominent chins are more sexually active than those with softer features, yet are less attractive to men looking for a long-term partner.
January 30, 2009
Women with high levels of the sex hormone oestradiol may engage in opportunistic mating.
January 30, 2009
When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field, men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men's interest and equally bad at judging women's interest.
January 19, 2009
Women’s sexual pleasure is directly linked to their partner’s wealth, says new research.
January 16, 2009
Scientists have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted.
January 14, 2009
Beautiful women may be more likely to have affairs because of a sex hormone linked to attractiveness and flirtatiousness.
January 8, 2009
A new study finds that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.
January 7, 2009
It is said that love is a drug. But is it just a drug?
January 6, 2009
When you're in love, everything seems different—and that includes your sense of smell.
January 5, 2009
To attract a woman by wearing scent, a man must first attract himself.
December 19, 2008
Some people will accuse me of playing with fire. Next summer, I am due to marry Nic, my boyfriend of two and a half years. We have plenty in common, but recent events have left a niggling doubt in my mind.
December 12, 2008
For men whose chat-up lines aren't working, it could simply be a case of bad timing. Psychologists have determined that women are most likely to give their phone number to a male stranger when they are likeliest to get pregnant.
December 4, 2008
Middle-aged men want younger women, often touting their intelligence and their high income.
December 3, 2008
Women might swoon over Barry White's deep bass, yet when looking for a provider, they find Justin Timberlake's falsetto sounds sexier.
December 1, 2008
Women are most likely to have affairs in their early 30s because they see it as a way to maximise their chances of reproducing, claim scientists.
November 17, 2008
A facial scar, preferably one that looks like it was inflicted in anger rather than the aftermath of chickenpox or acne, increases men's attractiveness to a woman for a short-term relationship, according to researchers.
November 12, 2008
Everyone loves a pretty face—except those women who might see it as a threat.
October 28, 2008
Expriments demonstrate that the color red makes men feel more amorous toward women. And men are unaware of the role the color plays in their attraction.
October 14, 2008
In three studies of more than 1,000 people researchers discovered that women place significantly greater importance on altruistic traits that anything else.
October 9, 2008
Men are often said to think not with their brains, but with another body part between their legs. We might be castigated for this, but according to new research, it might not be such a bad thing.
October 8, 2008
Recordings of women taken at different times in their monthly cycle show that the female voice rises perceptibly a day or two before ovulation, when women are most likely to become pregnant.
September 29, 2008
Money can't buy love, but it seems to earn you more babies since rich men sire more children than paupers.
September 4, 2008
Variation in the gene for one of the receptors for the hormone vasopressin appears to be associated with how human males bond with their partners, according to an international team of researchers.
September 3, 2008
Women are attracted to men who look like their fathers and men are attracted to women who resemble their mothers.
August 19, 2008
Scientists report today that symmetry is important to attractiveness in the body as well as the face, as had previously been shown.
August 13, 2008
The contraceptive pill could lead to women choosing the wrong partners, scientists believe.
August 8, 2008
There was a time when the world was full of women named Daisy and Iris and Lily and Rose. Some psychologists are now suggesting that the association between blooming flowers and womanhood may have ancient evolutionary roots.
July 16, 2008
People with voices deemed sexy and attractive tend to have greater body symmetry upon close inspection, suggesting that what we hear in a person can greatly affect what we see in them.
July 14, 2008
Temptation may be everywhere, but it's how the different sexes react to flirtation that determines the effect it will have on their relationships.
July 7, 2008
Love is blind, said Shakespeare. Now it seems there may be some truth in the bard's words. Researchers have found that people who are in love pay less visual attention to attractive people of the opposite sex.
July 2, 2008
Arousal could send you on a spending spree.
June 30, 2008
Was it good for you too? Almost half of women interviewed in new study have negative feelings about one-night stands.
June 19, 2008
The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the "dark triad" persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs.
June 19, 2008
Women are devastated by failing relationships while men flail more over unattainable relationships.
June 4, 2008
Men fighting over women? It’s nothing new, suggests new research.
May 19, 2008
How is a pick-up done in a bar? What strategies for rejection and sexual come-ons do men and women use?
May 12, 2008
Beautiful people are healthier and live longer, according to a study of sex appeal.
May 7, 2008
Measurements of symmetry and sexual dimorphism from faces are related in humans, both in Europeans and African hunter-gatherers, and in a non-human primate.
May 1, 2008
A woman's voice becomes more attractive when she is most fertile.
April 15, 2008
Do young people and their parents really disagree about the qualities of a suitable mate? Yes.
April 15, 2008
New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other match-ups.
April 11, 2008
Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males. New research shows that even affluent college students who don't need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions
April 9, 2008
People's attitudes to relationships could be given away by just the look of their face, it has been claimed—with men and women often after the opposite.
April 1, 2008
New research suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women—but their female peers aren't far behind.
March 21, 2008
Although many researchers have believed women choose partners based on the kind of relationship they are seeking, a new study reveals women’s preferences can be influenced by their own attractiveness.
March 19, 2008
Sexual promiscuity is rampant throughout nature, and true faithfulness a fond fantasy.
March 14, 2008
Jealous lovers will wish they could adjust the height of their heels, for the power of the green-eyed monster depends on how tall you are.
March 3, 2008
Researchers are revealing hidden complexities behind the simple act of kissing, which relays powerful messages to your brain, body and partner.
February 26, 2008
For partnered women, a manly man with no attachments seems sexiest when she is fertile.
February 14, 2008
What is the secret to finding the right partner? Two researchers are using unconventional techniques to find out.
February 13, 2008
Singles’ bars, classified personals and dating websites are a reflection, not only of the common human desire to find a mate, but of the sense of scarcity that seems to surround the hunt.
February 13, 2008
When it comes to romantic attraction men primarily are motivated by good looks and women by earning power. At least that's what men and women have been saying for a long time.
January 21, 2008
In just a fraction of a second, people can accurately judge the sexual orientation of other individuals by glancing at their faces, according to new research.
January 18, 2008
People with slightly longer legs really are more attractive to the opposite sex, a study suggests.
January 11, 2008
A new kind of dating agency relies on matching people by their body odour.
December 6, 2007
By marrying a woman 15 years younger, preindustrial Sami men maximized their surviving offspring.
November 12, 2007
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring.
November 8, 2007
A sexy swing of the hips may attract admiring glances, but it is not a covert sign a woman is ready to breed, according to researchers.
November 7, 2007
You are more likely to think other people are attractive if they are looking straight at you and smiling. The finding helps to explain long-standing questions over the subtle ways in which evolution can determine human preferences.
October 24, 2007
Pretty doesn't mean problem-free. How do we know if a potential, and pretty, mate is healthy?
October 24, 2007
Booty and brains sit well together. Curvy-figured mothers have children with better cognitive abilities.
October 17, 2007
Men have it tough: they age faster and die younger than women. Now research suggests that this trait could be linked to humankind’s ancestral breeding habits.
October 9, 2007
A fascinating new study is the first outside of North America to observe lower testosterone levels among married men.
October 8, 2007
In a particularly stimulating study, researchers have found that lap dancers—women who work in strip joints and, for cash, gyrate in the laps of seated men—earn more when they are in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle.
September 25, 2007
Men who have lower-pitched voices have more children than do men with high-pitched voices, researchers have found. And their study suggests that for reproductive-minded women, mate selection favours men with low-pitched voices.
September 18, 2007
Whether we are seeking a mate or sizing up a potential rival, good-looking people capture our attention nearly instantaneously and render us temporarily helpless to turn our eyes away from them.
September 17, 2007
Androstenone is used by some mammals to convey social and sexual information, and the ability to perceive androstenone's scent may have far-reaching behavioral implications for humans.
September 12, 2007
Experts studying the evolution of human behaviour have discovered chimpanzees will raid fruit to attract a mate.
September 4, 2007
While humans may pride themselves on being highly evolved, most still behave like the stereotypical Neanderthals when it comes to choosing a mate.
September 3, 2007
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so may be a kiss - or certainly to a woman anyway.
August 29, 2007
A woman should get together with a man several years older than herself if she wants a lot of children—at least in Sweden.
August 19, 2007
Women see 'masculine' men as unsuitable long-term partners, new research suggests. Conversely, men with feminine facial features are seen as more committed and less likely to cheat on their partners.
August 19, 2007
It is logically impossible for the mean number of partners for men to be different from the mean for women in any given population with equal numbers of heterosexual men and women.
August 19, 2007
Men with large jaws, flaring cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors.
August 1, 2007
After asking nearly 2,000 people why they'd had sex, the researchers have assembled and categorized a total of 237 reasons—everything from "I wanted to feel closer to God" to "I was drunk." They even found a few people who claimed to have been motivated by the desire to have a child.
July 10, 2007
Muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate.
June 21, 2007
Bachelors might have sex on their minds more than their single female counterparts, but once in a committed relationship, men and women have similar attitudes toward the act.
June 7, 2007
Men are as interested in gossip as women—and that women are more interested in gossip about other women.
June 4, 2007
People who are socially dominant and either very friendly or very antagonistic tend to be more sexually promiscuous, according to a new study.
May 23, 2007
Score one for body language: It seems that body shape and the way people walk hold major cues to their attractiveness to others.
May 14, 2007
Body builders and gym buffs, look away now. It appears that the opposite sex is much more interested in your face than your bulging biceps or elegant figure, especially if you're a man.
May 9, 2007
According to the study men take the same pleasure out of looking at an attractive female form as they do from having a curry or making money whereas women do not take any significant reward from looking at pictures of men.
May 9, 2007
Physical and behavioral sexual characteristics exhibited by human males indicate that males have evolved to deliver their sperm more effectively to females with multiple partners.
April 19, 2007
Why do so many people stay in monogamous relationships and take care of kids rather than fool around like wild chimpanzees? Are family values etched into our DNA through eons of evolution? Or imposed by the strictures of culture, law and religion?
April 16, 2007
A woman prefers a more masculine man when she is fertile and looking for a fling rather than a mate for life, according to a new study.
April 13, 2007
A study funded by the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) analyzed the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual photographs, and the result was not what one typically might expect.
April 11, 2007
When it comes to the matter of desire, evolution leaves little to chance. Human sexual behavior is not a free-form performance, biologists are finding, but is guided at every turn by genetic programs.
March 30, 2007
Much of courtship and mating is choreographed by nature. In fact, nature designed men and women to work together.
March 29, 2007
Encounters with the opposite sex skew our psyches in such a special way that reason and bias climb right into bed with each other. In this mode, it sometimes pays to deceive ourselves. Welcome to the paradoxical world of mating intelligence.
March 28, 2007
Researchers believe they have solved a mystery that has puzzled evolutionary scientists for years: if 'good' genes spread through the population, why are individuals so different?
March 28, 2007
Testosterone and estrogen drive touchdowns and boost brainpower, but they work their magic with a selectivity that science is only beginning to understand. A primer on how these counterintuitive chemicals truly shape us.
March 27, 2007
Exposure to attractive, flirtatious women may cause men to think less of their partner, suggest the results of a provocative new study.
March 14, 2007
New research argues that shapeliness and other typical measures don't cut it on their own.
March 1, 2007
Sexual activity for men and women, straight or gay, raises testosterone levels, which, at least in women, fuels the desire for intercourse, increases the likelihood of experiencing an orgasm and heightens the individual's belief in her own sexiness
February 12, 2007
In the context of sexual reproduction, natural selection is generally thought of as a pre-copulation mechanism. A new article suggests that the human male has also evolved mechanisms to pass on his genes during post-copulation as well, a phenomenon dubbed "sperm competition."
February 9, 2007
High-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love as those with an average job.
February 8, 2007
The reward circuitry in a woman's brain shifts with her menstrual cycle.
February 7, 2007
Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women.
February 5, 2007
Monthly mood swings may help women to get pregnant, according to a new study.
January 17, 2007
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but other people's opinions matter too when it comes to the attraction between men and women.
January 10, 2007
Written texts of all ages have the same drift when it comes to the midriff—they consistently describe women’s thin waists as attractive.
January 5, 2007
They say opposites attract—and a couple’s differences may be key to lasting happiness, according to a new genetic study of people in relationships.
January 4, 2007
Science might be able to explain our fascination with Brad Pitt's chiseled jaw and George Clooney's smoldering eyes.
December 21, 2006
When things get rough, a hand to hold can be comforting—especially if it's the hand of marriage.
December 19, 2006
According to experimenters, men with deeper voices may have more luck in attracting members of the opposite sex.
December 12, 2006
If you really want an mp3 player this Christmas, but your beloved buys you a radio, don't be too disappointed. New international research suggests knowing someone very well actually makes predicting his or her tastes more difficult.
December 1, 2006
If you have ever sat alone in a bar, depressed by how good-looking everybody else seems to be, take comfort—it may be evolution playing a trick on you.
November 22, 2006
If you want to be a big hit at speed-dating, walk tall, say UK scientists.
March 14, 2006
Male first-year college students who had a positive view of their appearance had a higher likelihood of having multiple sexual partners and engaging in unprotected sex. Femal first-year college students who were happy with their looks were less likely to undertake those same risks.
February 1, 2006
People of mixed race may possess genetic advantages that lead to greater health and, as a result, enhanced attractiveness.
February 13, 2006
The rules of attraction for the human species are still not clearly understood. How it all factors into true love is even more mysterious.
January 9, 2006
Study suggests infidelity could be part of evolutionary call for desirable mates.
September 28, 2006
Today's women are more likely to scrutinize the face of a potential mate, not his wallet.
October 9, 2006
Women put more effort into their clothing and grooming during their most fertile periods.
September 26, 2006
The phrase "easy on the eyes" may hit closer to the mark than we suspected.
August 22, 2006
We may be taught not to judge a book by its cover, but when we see a new face, our brains decide whether a person is attractive and trustworthy within a tenth of a second.
November 9, 2006
Dating, going steady, hooking up, settling down. There are many ways to be a couple and avoid the lovesick blues. Now it appears that in addition to lovesickness, there is a link between the types of relationships people have and how illness affect us all.
July 31, 2006
Biologists have found evidence that people can sniff out the chemical signals of sexual attraction.
July 23, 2006
It's not just that being religious influences your sex life, your sex life can also make you more or less religious.
August 17, 2006
How men and women misjudge sexual signals. And why men overestimate women's interest.
May 10, 2006
A reliable way for a woman to judge whether a man will be a suitable mate is to look at him in the face and to trust her instincts.
May 9, 2006
Women are able to subconsciously pick up cues of interest in children in men’s faces and use those cues to determine if they are attracted to them for long-term relationships.
May 10, 2006
Women live longer than men. And now scientists suggest a simple Darwinian reason: Competing for a mate can wear a guy out or get him killed.
April 24, 2006
During ovulation women tend to find masculine looking men more attractive and prefer their voices and odour.
December 5, 2005
People in relationships are generally happier than other people. And spouses have the highest sense of well-being, whether they are happily married or not.
November 30, 2005
Talk about creativity. Professional artists and poets hook up with two or three times as many sex partners as other people, new research indicates.
November 28, 2005
Some couples may disagree, but romantic love lasts little more than a year, Italian scientists believe.
November 21, 2005
Humor researchers have long noted gender differences in the use and appreciation of humor. While women want to settle down with a guy who can crack a good joke, men, to a large degree, want a partner who laughs at their antics.
November 2, 2005
Feminine beauty, the subject of philosophical and artistic musings for millennia, can be predicted by something as basic as hormones—in women, but not men.
October 5, 2005
Women who have children outside of marriage are less likely than other single women to marry, and when they do marry, their husbands tend to be less well-matched, according to a new study.
September 27, 2005
Why do quarrels go off at seemingly irrational tangents? It's the chemistry of rage, argues Robert Sapolsky
September 20, 2005
Men and women might be on the same planetary wavelength after all, says a US researcher who says men and women have more in common than we think.
August 31, 2005
People find familiar faces more attractive than unfamiliar ones; and the brain holds separate images of male and female faces and reacts to them differently depending on how familiar it is with their facial features.
August 17, 2005
When a woman is fertile near ovulation her partner preference shifts.
July 27, 2005
Men who spend big money wining and dining their dates are not frittering away hard-earned cash; they are merely employing the best strategy for getting the girl without being taken for granted.
July 19, 2005
But judgements based on immediate physical attraction are likely to lead to tears in the long run, and may be an important contributing factor to the high divorce rate and the increase in long-term singledom.
July 18, 2005
What's a girl to do when faced with the choice between a powerful action man who has great DNA but is likely to love her and leave her, and a carpet-and-slippers kind of bloke who will hang around and bring up the kids but may not be Mr Right in the genes department?
July 14, 2005
Facial attractiveness and smell give us contradictory messages about how to select mates, new research has revealed.
July 6, 2005
Women subconsciously prefer the aroma of dominant men when they are at the most fertile stage of the menstrual cycle, research suggests.
June 21, 2005
For women, it seems, sex is a big turn-off, reveals a brain scanning study. It shows that many areas of the brain switch off during the female orgasm—including those involved with emotion.
June 15, 2005
Genes, it seems, also make a big contribution to a woman's ability to reach orgasm.
June 13, 2005
Love appears to be a more evolved behaviour than lust.
June 9, 2005
According to a study published this week, up to 45% of the differences between women in their ability to reach orgasm can be explained by their genes.
June 8, 2005
Looking at pornographic images of men and women together can increase the quality of a man's sperm, a new study suggests.
May 31, 2005
Now for the first time, neuroscientists have produced brain scan images of this fevered activity, before it settles into the wine-and-roses phase of romance or the joint holiday card routines of long-term commitment.
May 17, 2005
The Darwinian logic behind the female orgasm has remained elusive. Women can have sexual intercourse and even become pregnant without experiencing orgasm. So what is its evolutionary purpose?
May 11, 2005
Humans are highly skilled at sniffing out suitable sexual partners.
April 22, 2005
When a woman walks into a crowded room, what her eyes do in the first few seconds may determine how attractive she is to any man meeting her gaze.
April 18, 2005
A talk with Simon Baron-Cohen at the Edge.
April 14, 2005
Men thought the opposite sex would be attracted by risky stunts but women said it was a turn-off.
April 5, 2005
Scientifically, it appears to make little sense. It can be time-consuming and exhausting. It's not even essential to reproduction. But a new study shows that sex leads to faster evolution.
April 1, 2005
Researchers say they've used advanced scanning methods to pinpoint the region of the brain where feelings of trust arise. Turns out those emotions are nestled in the same area as love.
March 30, 2005
In an age of e-mails, databases and online catalogues, two heads may no longer be better than one when information is shared between people with different viewpoints.
March 29, 2005
People are attracted to others with similar initials and name sounds, demonstrating a sort of implicit egotism.
March 22, 2005
A married man or woman is significantly more satisfied with their life when their partner is satisfied with life. But there is almost no evidence of the same affect among couples that prefer cohabitation to marriage.
March 7, 2005
A happy marriage apparently is good medicine, but hostile spouses may be harmful to one another's health.
February 25, 2005
New research involving newlyweds finds that what is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
February 22, 2005
A woman's ability to reach orgasm is partly due to her genes. And the relative importance of environmental factors versus genes seems to vary depending on whether a woman masturbates, has sexual intercourse or oral sex.
February 16, 2005
Women in the latter part of their menstrual cycle prefer people who look healthy, a UK study shows.
February 14, 2005
If your loved one asks you to marry them this Valentine's Day you may want to remember that when it comes to a happy marriage we are better off with someone just like ourselves.
February 11, 2005
It seems that the heart wants what the heart wants—and it can figure it out fairly quickly. Dating data from 10,526 anonymous participants found rare behavioral data on how people genuinely act in dating situations.
February 10, 2005
That sought-after trait in a mate—"good sense of humour"—is more complex than originally thought. In fact, men and women define it differently.
January 20, 2005
While there are essentially no disparities in general intelligence between the sexes, a study has found significant differences in brain areas where males and females manifest their intelligence.
January 11, 2005
The next time you're at a party with the love of your life, don't spend a lot of time trying to identify other couples in love—chances are, you aren't very good at it.
January 5, 2005
Are we born to love the smell of our mother’s skin or do we learn to? A recent study has shown that emotional association with scents comes through experience, not genes.
December 22, 2004
People measure male attractiveness based on size rather than weight.
December 20, 2004
Study suggests men's tastes differ before and after meals.
December 10, 2004
Men are more likely to want to marry women who are their assistants at work rather than their colleagues or bosses.
November 8, 2004
Research suggests that sexual competition among males is evident at the molecular level, as well as at behavioral and physiological levels.
October 13, 2004
Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, a University of Padova team believes.
October 12, 2004
Over the years, half as many men as women have passed on their genes.
October 11, 2004
Some men may not want to hear this—but scientists have found women are better at holding their drink.
October 7, 2004
Breastfeeding women and their infants produce a substance that increases sexual desire among other women.
September 30, 2004
Far fewer men than women pass their genes on to subsequent generations. In short, a small number of men have been putting it about a lot, thus outcompeting their lesser rivals.
September 22, 2004
Three recent studies on sex reveal that polygamy dominated human history so much that it is imprinted in our genes. But asexuality seems to be a relatively new evolutionary phenomenon that natural selection could, in the future, favour.
September 20, 2004
People with attractive voices are likely to be more sexually adventurous, according to a study.
August 17, 2004
Study confirms that women are more distressed by emotional infidelity in a mate while men are more distress by sexual infidelity.
August 12, 2004
Derided for their pathological inability to listen, particularly to words such as "commitment" and "washing-up", men are actually better at hearing and identifying everyday noises than women.
August 11, 2004
New research has revealed that the vowel sounds in your name could influence how others judge the attractiveness of your face.
July 29, 2004
Hollywood publicist Michael Levine suffers from the contrast effect--men are barraged with images of extraordinarily beautiful women, making it difficult for them to desires the ordinarily beautiful.
July 29, 2004
Everyone knows films can stir your soul, but a new study suggests your hormone levels may swing in reaction to everything from "chick flicks" to Mafia movies.
July 23, 2004
Zoologists are discovering that homosexual and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal kingdom.
July 23, 2004
New research confirms what women have probably known all along: most men aren't really good at sharing their feelings.
June 16, 2004
Up to 20 percent of long-term relationships begin when one or both partners are involved with others. Evolutionary psychologists call this "mate poaching."
June 10, 2004
Women are significantly more likely to have sex during the fertile part of their monthly cycle, suggests new research.
June 7, 2004
A scientist has claimed he has evidence of a genetic component to infidelity.
May 17, 2004
According to the Red Queen Hypothesis, sex exists to help organisms protect themselves against parasites. But there don't seem to be enough parasites around.
May 12, 2004
Today's handsome hunks may owe their good looks to a sexual power shift towards the fair sex during primate evolution.
May 10, 2004
Whether it's gadgets, gizmos or girls . . . a man's interest lasts only until the novelty wears off.
May 6, 2004
Love really does have a strange effect on people, say scientists.
May 5, 2004
Women with hourglass figures are more likely to become pregnant.
April 28, 2004
Women tend to choose husbands who look like their fathers?even if they are adopted, reveals a new study.
April 23, 2004
Thank evolution. Being reliable, honest and useful can work wonders to overrule an ugly mug.
April 21, 2004
There is more to beauty than meets the stranger's eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on people's perception of physical attractiveness.
April 20, 2004
They're faster and better at it than boys -- at least in the chimpanzee world, where they are more successful than the guys at "fishing" for termites, according to a study in last week's issue of Nature. Female chimpanzees start to fish for termites at a younger age than males, the findings indicate. They're more proficient than males once they've acquired the skill. And they use a technique similar to their mothers', something their male counterparts don't.
April 9, 2004
Girls prefer intimacy, while boys want to get going.
March 31, 2004
A woman's face is most alluring at the height of her cycle.
March 30, 2004
There are researchers who tell us it takes just eight seconds for the average person to size us up; to take full account of the clothes we're wearing, our haircut, even how we talk. All these clues lead someone to make a snap decision about who we are. From the other side of the looking glass, the psychology of the first impression. (Audio file requires RealPlayer)
March 17, 2004
In the world of relationships, the most important numbers to learn are: five to one. That is the ratio of positive interactions to negative ones that predicts whether a marriage will last or become one of the sad statistics of divorce.
March 16, 2004
The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images.
March 12, 2004
Alpha women are highly sought-after partners at the law firm and at the altar. How does the 21st-century groom feel about that?
February 19, 2004
Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people.
February 18, 2004
Women judge the attractiveness other women more harshly when at their most fertile, suggests a new study.
February 17, 2004
Familiarity may breed contempt, but it also breeds children. That seemingly special charm of your cubicle-mate, next-door neighbor or fellow Peace Corps volunteer may be merely a function of their being nearby and responsive to you.
February 13, 2004
At the Relationship Research Institute scientists say they have created a mathematical model that can tell which marriages are doomed to end in divorce.
February 11, 2004
Are men from Mars and women from Venus? This Valentine's Day, brain scientists offer new evidence for that continuing debate.
February 11, 2004
Ever wondered what fuels that flame when you fall in love? Brain scientists have found that it's all in your head.
February 5, 2004
At some point we all have to face the question of what makes a relationship work. A look at variables that help us choose the right partner.
February 2, 2004
In a fascinating new book, evolutionary anthropologist Helen Fisher examines the chemistry responsible for the giddiness, fixations and overarching lunacy associated with romantic love.
January 26, 2004
Researchers have suggested that size matters when it comes to sex—the size of part of the brain, that is.
January 20, 2004
What feels good is good for you too. Making love can boost the heart, relieve pain and help keep you healthy.
January 14, 2004
People rate shapeliness based on a girl's ratio of volume to height.
January 2, 2004
Why are humans nearly hairless? And why do some wish to become more so?
December 22, 2003
Getting married may be bad for men's health but good for women, according to a study.
December 15, 2003
It can make you, it can break you, but what is it exactly? From infatuation to friendship, therapist Andrew G Marshall analyses the many faces and descriptions of that overused four-letter word.
December 11, 2003
What makes you jealous? That depends on whether you re a man or woman . . . or so researchers have long thought.
December 10, 2003
Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected—men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face.
December 3, 2003
Sir Walter Scott was an author, not an evolutionary theorist. Yet Scott, a 19th-century writer, apparently shared with modern evolutionary scientists the general notion that men tend to follow two basic mating strategies.
November 18, 2003
Studies of animals show that, at least in some species, females maximise their chances of reproducing their selfish genes by cunningly cheating on their mate. With barely a pause for thought, evolutionary psychologists like to leap straight from this fact to humans.
November 12, 2003
Researchers may have taken a big step towards solving the mystery of how humans detect pheromones.
November 12, 2003
When you first fall in love, you are not experiencing an emotion, but a motivation or drive, new brain scanning studies have shown.
November 11, 2003
In new studies, scientists are discovering the neurobiological underpinnings of romantic love, trust, and even of self. New research also shows that a specific brain area—the amygdala—is involved in the process of understanding the intentions of others, in particular when lying is involved.
November 3, 2003
"Don't I know you?" may be more than an old pickup line. The perception that strangers are familiar may be the result of a mental shortcut gone awry.
November 3, 2003
James Roney and his team at the University of Chicago paid 18-36-year-old students $10 to come into the lab under the pretence of simply testing their saliva chemistry. Unbeknownst to the men, the scientists staged a five-minute chat with a twentysomething female research assistant. This brief brush set the men's hormones surging.
October 23, 2003
For long-term relationships, women like dads—men who are kind, compassionate and monogamous. But for short-term relationships, women prefer cads—the classic Romantic dark heroes who are dominant, promiscuous and daring.
October 10, 2003
"While everyone accepts that physical pain is real, people are tempted to think that social pain is just in their heads," said Matthew D. Lieberman, one of the paper's three authors and an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA. "But physical and social pain may be more similar than we realized."
October 6, 2003
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but this has not fully explained why men prefer fiddling with the TV remote control or hiding their heads under the car bonnet rather than taking the Dyson out and doing a spot of cleaning. Now, all is clear. It is not their fault at all. Men are simply not programmed to notice dust and do housework.
September 22, 2003
Evolutionary psychology has been stretched far beyond what it is really capable of explaining. Take the changes in attitudes to sex during the twenties.
September 15, 2003
Women who are in satisfying marriages have a health advantage over unmarried women or those in unsatisfying marriages, according to a study published in the September issue of Health Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA).
September 3, 2003
Pheromones are airborne, mostly odorless chemicals that alter sexual behavior, mark territory, and influence reproduction throughout the animal kingdom. But whether humans send and receive "sex chemicals" is a hot and bothered topic.
August 28, 2003
Commonly made claims about changes in family and other intimate relations are not supported by actual research. Today's theorists tend to emphasise either family breakdown and moral decline, or transformation and democratisation. A third perspective, claiming that there has been little substantial change in the way people relate to one another, is rarely heard, despite research evidence suggesting that individuals continue to place great importance on personal ties and obligations.
August 20, 2003
Herein lies the crux of relations between the sexes. African Eve and her daughters developed the determination to choose consciously a course of action that overrode the instinctual circuits that drive every other species' females to copulate when they ovulate. But the human species was the first in which all the females evolved the capacity to decide consciously to refuse to mate during any one ovulation or all the time.
August 19, 2003
An extended excerpt from Simon Baron-Cohen's new book, The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain, which is reviewed on our site.
August 12, 2003
Cathy Young's take on the controversy heightened by David Schmitt's survey of 16,288 college students from 50 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia which found that men want more sexual partners than women.
August 11, 2003
Men and women both have a strong promiscuous streak, says a psychologist who claims the desire for a fling is hard-wired into our genes. But the sexes are still oh-so-different: men lust after plenty of partners, while women demand quality over quantity.
August 7, 2003
A survey has confirmed the long-held belief that men spend much of their time day-dreaming about sex. But the fast pace of modern life leaves them too tired for the real thing.
August 5, 2003
Even though more than half of couples now do it, compared with only 10 percent 30 years ago, living together before marriage still is linked to higher rates of troubled unions, divorce and separation, Penn State researchers have found.
July 24, 2003
A fierce debate about whether jealousy, lust and sexual attraction are hardwired in the brain or are the products of culture and upbringing has recently been ignited by the growing influence of a school of psychology that sees the hidden hand of evolution in everyday life. Fresh sparks flew this month when a study of more than 16,000 people from every inhabited continent found that men everywhere—whether single, married or gay—want more sexual partners than women do.
July 23, 2003
"Non-human primates have the brightest colouration among mammals in the animal kingdom," says Ms Waitt, a researcher in the department of psychology. "Nobody really knows why—but it could play a role in competition with other males or female mate choice."
July 21, 2003
Talking openly about sex differences is no longer an exercise in political incorrectness; it is a necessity in fighting disease and forging successful relationships. At 109 and counting, Psychology Today examines the tally.
July 10, 2003
Birds do it, bees do it, humans do it—but nobody knows why sex evolved at all, the world congress of genetics heard in Melbourne today. "The evolution of sex has presented a paradox to evolutionary biology for over a century," said Associate Professor Sally Otto.
July 9, 2003
Psychologists have conflicting explanations for why men are mostly jealous about sex, while women are mostly concerned about emotional attachments, believing it comes either from evolution or from culture. The new cross-cultural research suggests the former is more important.
July 8, 2003
"Surprisingly, physical attractiveness is not all that important—except to people who rate themselves as physically attractive," says Dr. Emlen. "What Dan Quayle infamously called 'family values' characteristics—good parenting qualities, devotion and sexual fidelity—that's what people say they're looking for in a long-term relationship. And most people say they perceive those same characteristics in themselves."
July 7, 2003
Scholars at Israeli's Bar-Ilan University have developed a computer algorithm that can examine an anonymous text and determine, with accuracy rates of better than 80 percent, whether the author is male or female. For centuries, linguists and cultural pundits have argued heatedly about whether men and women communicate differently. But this group is the first to create an actual prediction machine.
July 2, 2003
Women can tell whether a man is attractive and has "good" genes just from a glimpse of his cheek, a study of male sex appeal says. (I don't know how they got a picture of me for this story.)
July 1, 2003
The old adage that opposites attract has been debunked by US scientists. They found that people tend to choose partners who are similar—or at least who they think are similar—to themselves, both in looks and attitude.
June 24, 2003
"Research on ... mate selection criteria has resulted in the broad generalization that women are more concerned with prospective mate’s potential control over social and economic resources and with (his) readiness to share them, while men pay relatively more attention to physical attractiveness." Current research from the online journal Evolutionary Psychology.
June 23, 2003
Why do insults once hurled at us stick inside our skull, sometimes for decades? Why do some people have to work extra hard to ward off depression? The answer is, for the same reason political smear campaigns outpull positive ones. Nastiness just makes a bigger impact on our brains. And that is due to the brain's "negativity bias": Your brain is simply built with a greater sensitivity to unpleasant news. The bias is so automatic that it can be detected at the earliest stage of the brain's information processing.
June 23, 2003
With the arrival, at last, of some seriously warm summer weather, there is hardly a girl in sight without a bare midriff. The practice of exposing a few inches of stomach above the hips has grown to such an extent over the past few years that last week the New York Times, which is almost as prudish as the Princess of Salina, finally decided to wake up and pay attention.
June 18, 2003
The development of colour vision may have lead to Old World primates, and hence their human descendants, to lose their ability to detect pheromones, suggests a new genetic study. Pheromones are highly specific scent molecules that many animals rely upon to find and assess a potential mate. But humans appear to make little, if any, use of pheromone signals, says Jianzhi George Zhang, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
June 17, 2003
David Schmitt and David M. Buss co-authored an article titled "Human Mate Poaching: Tactics and Temptations for Infiltrating Existing Relationships," which appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology during the summer. The article is based on studies the two performed to determine the criteria that exist to cause a person to steal or "poach" another away from his or her boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife, for the short term, such as a one-night stand or brief affair, or for the long term, such as a serious relationship or marriage.
June 17, 2003
"There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes," wrote English anthropologist Desmond Morris in 1967. "192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens."
June 13, 2003
"These findings likely represent a fundamental difference between men's and women's brains and have important implications for understanding how sexual orientation development differs between men and women," said J. Michael Bailey, professor and chair of psychology at Northwestern and senior researcher of the study.
June 9, 2003
Humans may have lost their body hair to reduce their vulnerability to fur-loving parasites and therefore attract the opposite sex, a new evolutionary theory proposes.
June 6, 2003
Despite major economic and social changes, the overall quality of marriage in the United States has not changed in the last 20 years, according to Penn State researchers. "People are as happily married now as they were 20 years ago, but they also are just as divorce prone," said Alan Booth, distinguished professor of sociology, human development and family studies and demography. "While we identified a number of specific positive and negative features in marital quality, they balance off, resulting in little major change."
June 3, 2003
Men and women see themselves as less appealing than members of the opposite sex do, conclude psychologists Jennifer Siciliani of the University of Missouri and Ryan Pride of St. Louis University. No matter how buff, men rate themselves as being less muscular than women do. Women perceive themselves as heavier than men see them.
June 2, 2003
Life was simpler thousands of years ago. In Biblical times, the secret to a happy marriage was nothing more than a honey-based alcoholic drink.
June 2, 2003
It seems that couples and roommates tend to have similar emotional reactions as time goes by. So if your roommate or lover laughs out loud at movies or gets weepy over hurt puppies, you may too--given time.
May 30, 2003
Researchers in Spain have found that men who are regarded as attractive by women are also more fertile. This, combined with earlier reports that handsome men are healthier, have led scientists to conclude that women who seek attractive male partners are, in fact, searching for the healthiest men, most able to father and provide for their children.
May 30, 2003
A common view is that sexual reproduction helps to reduce the effects of damaging mutations within a population. Now
researchers from the Rockefeller University have tested this premise, using careful measurements of bacterial populations, and provide evidence against it. The research published today in Journal of Biology examines how mutant bacteria respond to different forms of stress, from cold temperature to the inhibition of protein synthesis. Prof. Stanislas Leibler and Dr. Roy Kishony found that, on average, mutants fare better when they are stressed.
May 29, 2003
Ladies! Looking for a way to relax? Then try sniffing a man's underarm. New research shows that armpit sweat calms female volunteers. It also shifts menstrual cycles, so the discovery could give rise to perspiration-derived drugs to manipulate female fertility.
May 27, 2003
... when it comes to tolerating pain. New research reveals strong evidence that the traditionally "weaker" sex may be hardier after all.
March 27, 2003
This is an interesting summary of the research over the years about what makes humans happy. Money? Marriage? Religion? The latest research results point to a single factor that seems to bring happiness to humans virtually no matter where they are. The answer will surprise you.
March 20, 2003
In this intriguing, informative and entertaining journey beyond the lips by the BBC, Dr Gillian Rice investigates the theories about the origins of the kiss and the sexual chemistry, physiology and cultural significance of this most powerful symbol of trust or betrayal. A kiss is not just a kiss - it’s a unique form of communication.
March 20, 2003
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have found that exposure to male perspiration has marked psychological and physiological effects on women: It can brighten women's moods, reducing tension and increasing relaxation, and also has a direct effect on the release of luteinizing hormone, which affects the length and timing of the menstrual cycle.
March 10, 2003
Philosophers and poets, put down your pens. Scientists are studying the chemistry of love. And their findings are helping unravel age-old questions about attachment, obsession, craving and attention, behaviours that take over when people are in the throes of romance.
March 10, 2003
Those science guys say when a woman with a nice body walks by, a man, lacking as he does good peripheral vision, turns his head to look ... and promptly goes into a trancelike state. His eyes stop blinking. Saliva fills his mouth, a reaction described by some women as "drooling." When Beloved Brutus and his Wonderful Wife are about to encounter Miss Miniskirt, nature takes over. For both Brutus and Wife, actually. Let's look back in on our couple.
March 10, 2003
Although the two genders are purposefully socialized to be different in all human societies, it turns out that there are some concrete biological and scientific reasons underpinning gender differences.
February 21, 2003
According to a report published in the journal Nature, people are nearly twice as likely to lean right instead of left when puckering up. The findings suggest that the tendency stems from head-tilting preferences established during the last weeks in the womb.
February 20, 2003
Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Michael Douglas prove that women do not mind hitching themselves to drastically older men. Stephen Proulx, a zoologist at the University of Toronto, has developed an evolutionary model that makes this behavior easier to understand: It's not just about money, but it's not just about genes either. (Follow the link and search for "older men".)
February 20, 2003
An article on long-standing nature-versus-nurture debate over what triggers jealousy in men and women. Research led by Northeastern University psychologist Dr David DeSteno, reported in November issue of the Journal of Pesonality and Social Psychology, asserts that sex difference revealed in studies by evolutionary psychologists is spurious and postulates that jealousy could have evolved in each sex for reasons other than survival pressures that evolved in early humankind on the African plain, where life was no picnic.
February 20, 2003
A group of psychologists at St. Andrews University in Scotland has debunked the theory that opposites attract. They say people really want a partner who looks a lot like what they see in the mirror. The search for look-a-like lovers is probably driven less by narcissism than by sexual imprinting, the common tendency of animals to choose mates that resemble their parents in order to continue the species. (Follow the link and search for "dear old me".)
February 19, 2003
A new study suggests that old human urges are still at play when it comes to mating: Fertile females get the urge to look for "better" mates, while the men strive to retain their partners' attention.
February 17, 2003
During human evolutionary history, there were "trade-offs" between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signalling the circumstances.
February 17, 2003
The instinct to have sex is one of the most potent we possess. It’s vital if we are to produce the next generation. In this programme we find out what it is about the way we look, the way we smell and what we possess, that can attract the ideal mate.
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