Study: Men of All Ages Want Women in Their Mid-20s

[Shankapotomus]

475. Sorry for the delay in replying

I'm not sure why my answer is more important than your own to that one but I guess if the question you are implying is can something be both conditioned and selected...I never thought about it. You could probably look back at history and see that, the further back you go, the more self-sufficient women were in terms of surviving day to day which would imply it's a learned behavior stemming out of increased in group cooperation.

But can it be both? I'm not sure an already conditioned behavior (if indeed it is conditioned) needs to be reinforced with both. A conditioned behavior would imply it is already an automatic behavior pattern. Why would an automatic behavior pattern need to be learned?

Women's relationship to technology, which is kind of like a helper relationship, I would think could be seen as analogous to their relationship with the male species. Women's use of modern technology is obviously a learned behavior borne out of their interaction with the new technology. Women rely on this new technology but can usually, with a small amount of relearning, switch back to an older form of doing the same task - usually manual - if they need to do so.

Lastly, a conditioned dependency on males would imply, when left to her own devices, a woman could not survive on this planet alone or in groups because they allegedly are supposed to be lacking the automatic evolutionary behavior patterns to do so. And that is clearly wrong.

I think the social contract between men and women, as flawed as it is, is an ancient contract between two capable animals both superbly adapted to survive on earth alone, if need be, except for reproduction of course. But look at all the solitary species that survive and reproduce.

In every other species, the females are adapted to support themselves, to feed themselves, to survive. Why would human females be any different?

I'd be interested in your own answer to your question.