BEAUTY can win out over age. When choosing sexual partners, men are more
discerning than they’re given credit for, going for attractive older women over
younger women who would probably bear them more children.
“You’d think that men would always go for 20-year-olds, but they don’t,”
says evolutionary psychologist George Fieldman of Buckinghamshire Chilterns
University College. “Men prefer attractiveness over youthfulness when selecting
a long-term partner.”
In most animal species, including humans, males are generally thought to
compete for as many partners as they can. Going for quantity over quality
increases their chances of having the maximum number of offspring.…
