mate competition Quotes

I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.