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The idea that women are hunting for rich husbands while men choose wives for their beauty is a long way from the truth, suggests
The idea that women are hunting for rich husbands while men choose wives for their beauty is a long way from the truth, suggests
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2016-10-15
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The idea that women are hunting for rich husbands while men choose wives for their beauty is a long way from the truth, suggests a new study.
While some celebrity marriages may fit this pattern, most men and women are seeking a mate who is similar to them in qualities such as income, beauty, and desire to have children.
The new study flouts the traditionally accepted views that, to maximise our ability to reproduce, men are seeking young, attractive women who are likely to bear them children while women are seeking older, successful men who have the resources to support and protect their young.
"Our results fly in face of these studies," says Stephen Emlen, a behavioural ecologist at Cornell University, who conducted the study with Peter Buston, now at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Buston and Emlen’s study suggests most men and women in Western society look for partners with qualities on a par with their own. Attractive females, for example, are much more likely to seek a similarly healthy and good-looking mate than a rich one. And wealthy males are more likely to seek a rich wife than a pretty one.
Unions of "like" individuals are more advantageous from an evolutionary perspective, says Emlen, because they are more stable. This is beneficial because humans require long-term relationships both to produce a lot of children and to ensure that they survive to adulthood.
The researchers gave questionnaires to almost 1000 men and women aged 18 to 24. The volunteers were first asked to rank the desirability of 10 attributes in a long-term partner, and then rank themselves on the same 10 attributes. Analysing the results, Buston and Emlen found a consistent match between the qualities ranked as highly desirable in a partner and in an individual themselves.
The new study confirms that before setting out to search for a mate, people assess their own assets and then look for a mate "in their league". The implication, says Emlen, is that long and happy marriages are most likely for couples sharing similar values, education, physical appearance and intellectual interests.
Choosing a partner with far superior qualities would risk a future breakup, because such a partner would eventually be tempted away by a higher quality mate.
However, Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Liverpool, U. K. , warns against oversimplifying human mate choice. "It like a poker game," he says. "You have to balance your preferences against those of your partner and the other players in the game. "
It can be inferred from the text that______.
选项
A、opposites do not attract in mating game
B、everyone desires to seek a higher quality mate
C、beauty is the most desirable quality for everyone
D、attractive women rarely marry good-looking men
答案
A
解析
第六段点明了本文的基本观点“Unions of‘like’individuals are more advantageous from anevolutionary perspective…because they are more stable.This is beneficial…”。所以,A应为答案。
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