Muy relacionado con el post anterior, un estudio de la Universidad de Nuevo Mexico y de la de California (UCLA) descubre uno de los motivos de la infidelidad femenina (Near Ovulation, Your Cheatin' Heart Will Tell on You, Find UCLA, University of New Mexico Researchers):

Los miembros del "sexo débil más dulce" pueden haber evolucionado para engañar a sus parejas durante la mayor parte de su ciclo fértil, pero solo cuando sus parejas sean menos atractivas que otros hombres

Es decir, durante el periodo fértil, las mujeres se dejan llevar por la naturaleza (cosa lógica) y si encuentran a un hombre más atractivo que su actual pareja dejan de pensar y tienden a mejorar la especie. Quién lo iba a decir, si parecía que los infieles por naturaleza eran los hombres.

Para más aclaraciones tenéis el artículo completo (inglés). Yo dejo una parte:

Higgamous hoggamous, woman's monogamous; hoggamous higgamous, men are polygamous. Or maybe not.

New research from UCLA and the University of New Mexico suggests that members of "the gentler sex" may have evolved to cheat on their mates during the most fertile part of their cycle — but only when those mates are less sexually attractive than other men.

"Women know they have attractions that come and go, but they probably don't realize that these urges are tied to their cycle — as well as our evolutionary past," said Martie G. Haselton, a UCLA researcher and author of two new studies on the subject. "They just know that suddenly one day they're attracted to their hunky neighbor or handsome co-worker."

Men, meanwhile, seem to be aware on some level of this possibility and appear to step up mate-guarding strategies when their wives or girlfriends ovulate, even when neither is keeping track of the woman's cycle, the research shows.

"It's not just that men are more jealous and possessive when their partners ovulate, but they're also more attentive to their partners and more giving to their needs," said collaborator Steven W. Gangestad, a University of New Mexico psychologist.

"Although men are probably not aware of it, they behave as though they're genuinely concerned about being cuckolded," Gangestad continued. "It turns out that there's some basis for the fear."

Así que ya sabeis chicos. A ponerse guapos, sobre todo en "esas fechas" para evitar que nos levanten a la chica. Si no ven a los demás más guapos que a nosotros no pasará nada.

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