Men prefer women with big breasts, and beautiful women with blond hair and blue eyes are more attractive; Even though men know that all these can be achieved through plastic surgery, hair dyeing and colored contact lenses, they are still fascinated by them. Why? In the past history, most human society practiced polygamy, which is very important because men are taller than women; But why is the more modern civilized society monogamous? I believe many men dream of returning to the polygamous society in the past, but is that really good for men? Let's use Psytopic to discuss the misunderstanding of the truth of human nature. -psytopic.com

Human nature is a hot topic, but no one can define it. Whenever we fall in love, couples quarrel, feel uneasy and dissatisfied with immigrants entering our country, or just go to church. To some extent, we show the unique humanity that evolved from human animality.

This means two things. First, our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are not only produced by our personal experiences and environment in life, but also by our ancestors millions of years ago. Secondly, despite the great cultural differences, our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are common to all men and women.

Human behavior is not only the product of our innate humanity, but also the product of our personal experience and experience environment. But this paper emphasizes the influence of biology on human behavior, because most social scientists think that the development of human behavior seems to stop at the neck, and it seems that our behavior is more like the product of a complete environment and society. Comparatively speaking, progressive psychologists have seen the psychological adaptive choice of human nature, which makes us tend to think about feelings in a specific way, and often constantly think about solving the problems of survival and reproduction under conscious circumstances. Our preference for candy and fat is a psychological development mechanism. We don't always choose to like sugar and fat, but they taste delicious.

Compared with our ideals, the meanings of some ideas in this article may seem immoral or annoying. But when we publish them, they are facts and have scientific basis. Whether you like human nature or not, these are just simple political mistakes.

This article is adapted from Why Beauty Has More Daughters by Dr. Alan S. Miller and Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, translated by Lisa, a member of Psytopic. (Author Allen S Miller and Jin Zecong, published by Perigee Press in September 2007. )

1. Men like big breasts and fat buttocks (which is also the goal pursued by women).

Long before television appeared-15 and 16 th century Italy, or maybe two thousand years ago-women dyed blonde hair. A recent study shows that Iranian women are actually more concerned about their external image and want to lose weight than American women. It is difficult to attribute the preferences and desires of Italy in the15th century and Iranians in the 2 1 century to the media-oriented socialization process.

Women want to look like Barbie-young, thin waist, plump breasts, long blonde hair and blue eyes-which is a conscious orientation and a wise response to men's desire to marry a woman who looks like Barbie. There is evolutionary logic behind these characteristics.

Men especially like young women, because they like healthy women, not aging women. The correct orientation of health is the charm of the body; And hair. Healthy women have glossy hair, while patients have dull hair. Because hair grows slowly, long hair on the shoulders can reveal a woman's health in recent years.

Men also generally prefer women with low waist-hip ratio. They prefer women to be healthy and plump; Because they have a lot of reproductive hormones in their bodies, they are more likely to have children at a younger age. Therefore, when a man sees a woman with a thin waist, he has unconsciously incorporated a healthier and fuller reason.

Until recently, for evolutionary psychology, why men like women with big breasts is still a mysterious topic, because women's big breasts have nothing to do with their ability to secrete milk. But Frank Marlowe, an anthropologist at Harvard University, thinks that bigger breasts are heavier, drooping and older than smaller ones. So for men, it is easier for men to judge a woman's age (and her fertility) with their eyes-which seems to imply that men find women with big breasts more attractive.

When men choose the opposite sex, they will prefer women with thin waists, which may be the same as they like women with big breasts. A recent study on Polish women shows that women with big breasts and thin waist have the strongest reproductive ability, which is manifested in their reproductive hormone levels (estradiol and progesterone) being twice that of ordinary women.

Blonde hair is special because it magically changes with age. A typical example is a young girl with bright blonde hair, which turns brown with age. Therefore, men who like blond hair are actually unconsciously looking for younger women as spouses (and, generally speaking, the healthier women, the stronger their reproductive ability). Inconsistent, Scandinavian and Nordic blondes may be the choice of women's advertisements for youth, because their bodies can only be hidden in thick clothes.

A woman with blue eyes is actually no different from a woman with green eyes or brown eyes. Although everyone's preference for blue eyes is very common, both men and women. There is a saying that a person's pupils will be dilated in front of what he likes. For example, when you see a child, the pupils of women and babies (men are not) will naturally dilate. Pupillary dilation is the truest expression of interest and hobby. The pupil size of blue eyes is easy to observe. People with blue eyes are considered as the most attractive potential spouses, because it is easy for us to know whether they are interested in us.

Ironically, none of the above can be said to be absolutely true and lasting. Through plastic surgery, wearing a wig, liposuction, breast enhancement, hair dyeing, colored contact lenses, etc. Regardless of age, any woman can have the characteristics of the ideal beauty defined above. Men fall for it. Men must know that those short and fat women with big breasts are not 15 years old, but they are still fascinated by them because they have a psychological mechanism and are fooled by modern inventions that their ancestors did not have in the environment.

2. Human beings are born with polygamy.

Apart from the history of western civilization, human beings are naturally polygamous. Polygamy (a woman marries more than one man) is rare, but polygamy (a man marries more than one woman) is very common in human society. Even the Jewish-Christian monogamy tradition is only the only natural form of marriage. We know that polygamy has been practiced in human history, because men are taller than women.

Among primates and non-primates, the degree of polygamy is determined by the differences between males and females within their species. The more polygamous a species is, the greater the difference between the sexes. Generally, men are higher than women 10% and weigh 20%; This is the reason why there is a small amount of polygamy in human history.

Compared with monogamy, polygamy creates greater differences in male adaptability (the gap between "winners" and "losers" in reproductive games) rather than female adaptability. The difference of male adaptability between men makes men more stressed in courtship. Only taller and bigger men can win the chance of courtship. In paired species, such as humans, men and women raise children together, and women tend to marry tall men because they can provide better material protection against predators and other men.

In a society where the gap between the rich and the poor is very large, women (and their children) can enjoy several rich men; Half, a quarter or even a tenth of a rich man is better than the whole person who has no money. As George Bernard Shaw said, "maternal instinct leads women to tend to have one-tenth of first-class men, not all of third-class men." Although human nature is polygamous, most industrial societies are monogamous, because compared with their ancestors in the Middle Ages, modern men have almost equal access to resources. (From hunting to farming, the more society develops, the more unequal it becomes. Industrialization tends to reduce this inequality. )

Most women benefit from polygamy while most men benefit from monogamy.

When the resources between men are unequal-this situation exists in every human society-most women benefit from polygamy: women can enjoy a rich man. Under monogamy, they sometimes have to marry poor boys.

The only exception is those women who are loved by everyone. In monogamy, they can monopolize the richest men; In polygamy, they have to share the same man with other ordinary women. However, the opposite is true for men. Monogamy ensures that every man can find a wife. In fact, the average man can only marry the average woman, but it's better than no wife.

In a monogamous society, men imagine that they will live better in a polygamous society. What they don't realize is that for most ordinary men, polygamy means no wife, or if you are lucky, you may get far less wives than you can get in a monogamous society.