[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by I2K Beta Mu

CTFU @ that gif. I feel you, frat. I think it works like it does in nature. I'm not trying to compare people to animals, but I think what a lot females look for in a dude is that "Alpha Male" mentality. Do you ever watch National Geographic? You ever watch two males fighting over a female. She always walks away with the stronger male. I know that's some crazy shit to compare humans to that, but I think it kind of works the same way with people in a sense. .

Nah, not really. When it comes to a mate and survival, animals think on instinct. People make choices. Like dogs for example -I have clients who treat their dogs as if they’re as smart as humans; others as if they were dim-witted children. They’re neither. Dogs and animals alike are as intelligent as they need to be –which means their intelligence isn’t going to be like ours. With dogs and other animals, they evolved in environments different from those that shaped the human race, so it should hardly be surprising that they don’t think in exactly the same way we do. I mean, there are some similarities. For example, their associative learning capacities, as well as some of the emotions that drive them, follow the general mammalian pattern and are therefore similar to ours. What I’m saying is like us, they try to avoid situations that have scared them in the past, and repeat experiences that they have found rewarding. When it comes to a mate we are not the same. It’s their more complex cognitive abilities that are likely to be qualitatively different from ours since these would have been selected to match their lifestyle. If we overestimate their ability to reason/make choices that aren’t just based on instinct, then we are led into making them accountable for their actions in situations where they are actually unaware of what they are doing.