• Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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    Research suggests that this enables humans to determine the suitability of potential partners based on age, in addition to other factors

    If only there was some other way to tell if someone was old.

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      17 hours ago

      Smell is a powerful sense most of us don’t really understand logically. For example; We pick up clues as to a mate’s compatibility through kissing, tells us how compatible we are in order to have children with strong immune systems.

      https://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133686008/The-Science-Of-Kissing

      And yes, have you ever noticed how hyper-sensitive we are to age? We can dial in someone’s age at a glance, gender too! Watch people in traffic, just a peek, see how well you do. But we can fail, and we do, all the time.

      Here’s a freaky fact I’ve seen born out over and over. Young women are terrible at guessing an older man’s age, usually aiming lower. Older men fail in the opposite direction, thinking a young woman is older. And that’s how we tend to like it! Older men want younger women and vice versa.

      tl;dr: You all primates, get over yourselves.