Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Reid- "The Science of Romance: Why We Flirt"

"Evolutionary biologists would suggest that those individuals who executed flirting maneuvers most adeptly were more successful in swiftly finding a mate and reproducing and that the behavior therefore became widespread in humans." (Paragraph 5 of Luscombe's article)

Paraphrase x 3:

Scientists posit that people who perform seduction moves the best are better at quickly identifying a reproductive partner to have babies with, and that these practices thus evolved to be common in human beings.

People who study evolution hint that unique people who perform flirtatiously-- and get the best feedback from it-- have better luck in hastily choosing mating partners and having unprotected sex, and the ways that they act became nothing new for the rest of us.

Evolution nerds are comfortable judging that its easier people who are better flirts to find someone to sleep with and have children with, and that their habits became expected for everyone else.

Possible thesis: "One of the reasons we flirt in this way is that we can't help it." (Paragraph 4)

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