While on these forums I seem to be the biggest EP whore, toting as it's the end all be all explanation for everything, it does have one huge hole that I can't seem to explain in relationships.
EP seems to explain mate selection rather closely, but if you see.... in reality it seems that most of us, tend to settle down with someone we have a close relationship with emotionally. Does this make any sense in EP terms? Slightly, but according to EP we should be trying to catch those who best fit our mold for genetic success .
But why is it, for most of us, we want someone we have a connection with? Someone who loves us and we love back? She/He doesn't have to be the best looking or the smartest... or whatever! We basically choose someone who we have the most in common with. We also have a tendency to choose someone who looks like the most like us (ie. father/mother)
I guess EP can explain it like... we're looking for someone closest to our genetic factors... but not too close. But there a still a lot of holes in the theory. Or we're just not at that point we can explain it.
We still can't explain what beauty EXACTLY is... is it fertility? Is it intelligence? is it good genes? we don't know yet....
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