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Old 02-04-2007, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by tc33 View Post
RT Wolf, thanks for the quick and intelligent response. From what I understand, you're saying that:
- confidence is an indicator of higher status
- higher status males are more likely to provide benefits/resources that lower status males cannot
- higher status males are more likely to be genetically superior, thus enabling the creation of genetically-superior offspring
Tom, confidence is an indicator of good health and so it is inferred that the person has good genes to pass on and ability to provide well for female's future offspring. I am talking about it in terms of animal behaviour and it makes sense to apply it to human subconscious as well.
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