What Evolution Made Women Actually Want. (Why Women Never Want Alpha Male)

What did evolution make women actually want? Not the biggest, coldest, most ruthless "alpha." The evidence still sits in our teeth, our eyes and our hormones. This video reveals why, generation after generation, the gentle man got chosen. This video covers: • Why male fangs shrank over a million years before stone tools • Chimpanzee alpha males and sexual coercion • The most helpless baby on Earth and cooperative breeding • How hunter-gatherers cut bullies down to size • Human self-domestication and the silver fox experiment • Why new fathers' testosterone drops • What 10,000 people in 37 cultures said they want in a partner Which one are you: the flowers guy or the hand-holder? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for more stories about where we really come from. ────────── Sources: Suwa et al. — Canine sexual dimorphism in Ardipithecus ramidus, PNAS, 2021 Muller, Kahlenberg, Emery Thompson & Wrangham — Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzees, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2007 Harmand et al. — 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya, Nature, 2015 Kuzawa et al. — Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development, PNAS, 2014 Gettler, McDade, Feranil & Kuzawa — Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males, PNAS, 2011 Cieri, Churchill, Franciscus, Tan & Hare — Craniofacial feminization, social tolerance, and the origins of behavioral modernity, Current Anthropology, 2014 Buss — Sex differences in human mate preferences: evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1989 Jensen-Campbell, Graziano & West — Dominance, prosocial orientation, and female preferences: do nice guys really finish last?, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995 Christian Science Monitor — Why are humans so kind, yet so cruel? (Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox), 2019 Gray — How hunter-gatherers maintained their egalitarian ways, Psychology Today, 2011 Wikipedia — Domesticated silver fox Wikipedia — Allomothering in humans Disclaimer: For educational and entertainment purposes. Some interpretations are actively debated among researchers and may change as new evidence emerges. Not professional advice. #HumanEvolution #AlphaMale #WhatWomenWant #EvolutionaryPsychology #SelfDomestication #Anthropology #DatingScience