Achieving social status is not an alternative to sexual selection; rather, it is one of the main ways whereby sexual selection operates. “If there were no beautiful women,” Aristotle Onassis is reputed to have said, “money would be meaningless.” So, too, would being the center of attention as a creator of great stories, painting, songs, etc. this leads, turn to a controversial issue: whether creative genius is sexually asymmetrical
On the one hand, the fact that there are so many more “great masters” than “grat mistresses” in every major artistic discipline is consistent with the sexual selection hypothesis. . . . Page 189
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Dinesh said:
On the one hand, the fact that there are so many more “great masters” than “grat mistresses” in every major artistic discipline is consistent with the sexual selection hypothesis. . . . Page 189
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