Chicks Don't Dig Losers:
Another study confirms that
women prefer risk-prone men to risk-averse nice-guy shmucks,
much as evolutionary psychology predicted, and that flaunting wealth, strength
and/or bravery increases mens' sexual success. One of the authors of the paper, Robin Dunbar, was involved in the survey which showed that mobile phones were
a lekking device, flaunted by single males in the presence of females and competing
males.
Mind you, mobile phones have lost some of their lekking power, having become
more or less ubiquitous; however, a London jeweler is working around that, by
encrusting
mobile phones with diamonds. Each unit (based on an off-the-shelf phone)
sells for US$20,000 to US$50,000, though some are predicting fake gem-studded
mobiles to become popular with teenagers. In decades to come, the Noughties
may be known as the decade of those tacky fake-jewelled mobile phones.