Posted on 08/28/2007 7:26:47 PM PDT by blam
Men have evolved to choose young wives
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 29/08/2007
There is a 25 year age gap between Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas
Men have evolved to seek wives and girlfriends who are younger than they are to maximise their chances of reproducing, researchers have found.
Couples are most likely to have a greater number of children if the man is about six years older.
A team from Vienna University studied more than 11,600 Swedish men and women, aged 45-55, and their partners and found that relationships in which the man was six years older than the woman produced the most children - an average of 2.2.
Women placed more emphasis on resources and status - leading them typically to choose older men.
Martin Fieder, who led the team and whose research was published online by the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, said: "These findings may account for the phenomenon that men typically prefer and mate with women younger than themselves, whereas women usually desire and mate with men older than themselves.
"We conclude that the age preference for the partner increases individual fitness of both men and women and may thus be an evolutionarily acquired trait."
When the team examined those who had changed partners after the birth of their first child they found men ended up with women younger than their first choice, while women chose men who were younger than their first partner but still a little older than themselves.
Mr Fieder said: "These findings support the reported age preferences of ageing men for increasingly younger women as well as of women for a partner just a little older than themselves.
"We attribute the shift to a younger partner to a potential compensation for the fertility loss caused by the individuals' increasing age."
Since you bring it up, what was the difference between Mia and Woody? Or Mia’s [adopted] daughter and Woody?
Yea and women have evolved to marry old rich men. So what???
I think even though she’s pretty, she’s becoming pretty for her age.
Yuk...such a pretty women to be married to him...
Advertising for a prom date this time???? LMAO
I read somewhere (and think it is probably a valid Law of Nature) that the ideal age of a man’s girlfriend is half his age plus seven years.
Try it. Works for all ages. :>)
She never married Woody Allen, although when she was 25 she married Andre Previn who was 41 at the time.
Woody is 35 years older than Soon-YI Previn.
Marriage is great.
Keep doing it until you get it right.
Well, in your case I might consider that an exception is in order.
Researchers, however brilliant, occasionally miss a few obvious points.
I don’t think that older men wanting younger woman (and older women going after younger men) has anything to do with evolution, just lust.
You go boy!!!!!!!!!!!
Welfare for the educated is what I call it (and i work in the medical research industry)
What ever works!
I sense you’re a nice man. :)
It depends on the situation. If a married man leaves his wife for a younger woman after a long marriage he is always a worthless piece of crap who deserves to lose every penny he has and the other woman is always a two bit whore.
Never any exceptions.
And if you have money the younger woman is always in it for the money never for love.
No man has ever left his wife for a younger woman.
And you’ll probably find some two bit bimbo if you have money to marry you and then leave her for some tramp with an IQ below her dress size.
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