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  • Actually I try to talk in a higher voice in order to sound friendlier... also so people can hear me, my family constantly blames me for mumbling. But I do think higher voices help people sound friendlier.

  • I'm trying to get in on your good, Vladi. What was her IQ? 10?

  • not necessarily mating with him, but pleasing him.

  • it turns out where it's the only way I can survive. This man is a politician. I was insanely attracted to vladi. And it turns out, as usual, that it's my only way to survive.

  • This is So True. However, there's the other side of the coin. People who reproduce with anybody. These are the ones who throw themselves in the gene pool, have 10 or so kids, and only one of those 10 kids actually have the Intellect to achieve anything. The rest become Government Employees and get paid BIG BUCKS to follow instructions in pamphlets.

    OOPS, did I say that.

    :-)

  • @lecreus1871 i guess.

  • So to get a chick in a bar at friday night, I have to have big chin and deep voice?

  • @ValeV008 unless you interact with her yeah, or else looks or bling bling to show off your money is only what you got... The latter is most important.

  • I wish you were my professor !

  • This would explain why clear skin is so relished. Symptom of good health.

  • and same sex.. evolution...just saying

  • @david1991rules4life not saying it IS evolution but it's part of it.. in a way

  • I dont know man... with a good pair of hooters she could be coughing her ass off...

  • This man is a pure genious

  • the movie idiocracy.

  • So If a man has a gentle face or a baby face he isn't desirable or healthy then?

  • @HitachiHenemaru if he has a baby face then he is known as "cute" as far as healthy goes being the person that michio described just shows signs of good health.

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  • i need this guy as a wingman

  • @mnypwrrspkt He would just get all the chicks.

  • @Hegataro all the chicks attracted to raiden from mortal kombat

  • This partially, based on evolutionary theory and psychology, is why people "cheat" out if instinct and needs. The reasons are slightly different, but the desired end result is the same.

    Women cheat, because they are looking for a stronger mate with a better set of genes, to ensure that her off spring are stronger, to propagate the species.

    Men cheat, because they want to have a diverse gene pool, to propagate the species.

  • @Soldier4USA2005 that's a real scientific way of looking at it and if you could brake down sexual attraction to it's rawest form i'm sure that's what you'd find but i think males cheat not just for that reason but simply because of memes aka society telling them it's more acceptable and makes them studs.

  • Sex tips from Michio Kaku. 

  • @Waywardpaladin Of course, I agree, but our ability to decide transcends the human genome. Say masturbation, we're not selecting for traits beneficial to our offspring when we do it, we want pleasure. Things like hatred for example don't have a chemical reaction or genetic basis to them. I know that feeling good is often the result of dopamine or oxytocin being released in the brain, but that happens after the fact, so there's more to it than just chemicals or selection.

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  • What the fuck

  • So why don't women like hairy guys? Isn't that a huge mark of a healthy, testosterone filled man?

  • @khazal12

    fyi women love men who threat them like sluts... holes to be filled.... if you say that's not the case you haven't done it in the right way

  • @kerimil what has that got to do with what I said?

  • @khazal12

    that they do love them

  • @kerimil What they love body hair? I don't think they do man, I dunno if hair on someones shoulders is the most attractive asset to a woman, regardless of conduct.

  • @apardilla I disagree with the byproduct thing because there is no evidence to prove that. It's a hypothesis at best.

  • spiral energy, y'all

  • This man doesn't stop to surprise me with his acumen in all aspects of science.

  • well its not natural selection at this point, its sexual selection..

  • hehe physical examination.

  • Bullshit! I'm fit and healthy and I still can't get laid!

  • so glad i have my long neck and big jaw

  • @M1keOxlong69 long neck =//= thick strong neck =(

  • The problem with this argument is that people have sex for pleasure, not for survival of the fittes. The biggest mistery that science can't explain is free will.

  • @DMeloMan .......yet

  • @DMeloMan but don't you have sex with the most beautiful partner you can get your hands around ?

  • @blah1311 I do, but for pleasure, not survival. First of all, adaptation is completely out of our hands. Say we run out of food and the only way to survive is to have a solar panel fin on our back to harness energy from the sun. Selecting an attractive partner can't aid us in this, get what I'm saying?

  • @DMeloMan reproduction is survival. Choosing the healthy mate will assure success in reproduction. Survival and Reproduction is the most basic trait found on any living organism on planet Earth. Lust is a byproduct of Attraction, and Attraction is a byproduct of surivival by reproduction. A few mammals are smart enough to add Entertainment (on top of survival and reproduction), and this led to the creation of pr0n.

  • @DMeloMan That is why species can go extinct, if a selective pressure is introduced and that gene doesn't already exist due to ongoing mutation in the species, they lose. Now if there are some people with the sickle cell gene, which also gives protection against malaria, and there is an epidemic of that, then you'll find that those with the sickle cell gene survive more and the entire population's demographic shifts. But there had to be that trait to select for already.

  • @DMeloMan I believe he was talking about the people you choose....I don't really understand what your trying to say here.

  • @ThiagoSilva187 What I'm saying is that there is no certain appearance that makes one choose a partner. I can say girl X is beautiful, but you on the other hand disagree and say girl Y is beautiful, and that's called free will. Basically what I'm saying is this, evolution is a random process with no orientation, meaning there is no goal. How then is there order and orientation in the process? How is it possible for a goal to exist in a system where goals don't exist?

  • @DMeloMan The fact that we have variance in attraction is useful for evolution. You want to mate with girl X, someone else wants to mate with girl Y. If X has useful traits, your offspring will flourish. Now, if everyone was attracted to only the Y-type, then X wouldn't have been able to pass on those genes. I'm not sure how attraction is 'free will." I didn't look at a list of traits and go "I will, with no inherent bias, decide that I like redheads." It was instinctual. Genetic.

  • @ThiagoSilva187 Think about it, we don't have sex to survive, we do it for fun. I understand sex is the means by which we reproduce, but people do it not wanting to reproduce. Contraception, abortion, planned parenthood. If our purpose is to survive and adapt, why are we able to go outside this parameter? Why do we hate each other and kill each other? These are things that cannot be explained away by the survival of the fittest or natural selection.

  • Well, then. In that case fat ugly women shouldn't be reproducing at all. No one wants to fuck a ugly plumper, or a woman that's even uglier then the ugliest dog. Unless, the guy is drunk off his ass, and his buddies weren't there to SAVE him from making a stupid foolish mistake, that he will regret in the morning. UN-fortunately fat ugly women do reproduce. Michio forgot the wild card, which in this case? The wild card would be alcohol, causing ugly and fat people to get laid.

  • @IlluminatReptilian Almost seems like you are telling us your own experience.

  • @blah I'm just stating a FACT, like it or not. What I talked about above happens all the time. I've seen many men get drunk and go off with some ugly fat stupid skank from hell. They're drunk and when people get drunk they are obnoxious, and you can't reason with them, in that drunken state.So if their other buddies aint there to help stop them from making a mistake they will regret in the morning. Oh well. I just sit back and laugh my ass off. You sure you aint been with a few fattys?

  • 0:28  except america bwahaha

  • @Lecreuset871

    Oh ha ha, lol.

  • @Lecreuset871 he's american so you lose.

  • @Lecreuset871 LOL!

  • @Lecreuset871 YOU SICK SO- oh wait, you're exactly right!

  • @Lecreuset871

    You win this time. >:O

  • What he's saying is the ugly are dying out. This can only be good. I can't stand the ugly.

  • wow, I had the same theory like this guy, now i feel smarter!

  • that guy could make diarrhea so interesting that you would literally shit your pants just by how awesome he describes it!

  • @risefabs That was an awesome explanation as well.

  • @risefabs What?

  • @risefabs lmao

    

  • lmao he sort of described a black girl just saying!!!

  • @convoytim lol what?

  • Well ,i like a girl thats not healthy,but shes beutyfull.

  • yeah. people are always going for beauty (the definition of it can change from person to person, but generally speaking). as such - and this may seem stupid to some - i view make-up as an attempt to lie. or at least hide the truth. a beautiful person is beautiful without make-up too. my family doesn't like that view of mine and say "it's only to enhance the good parts", but im keeping my view anyway. i mean... if you look at many of the world's "good lookin" celebrities... without make-up...

  • So it's pretty much a nicer way of saying ugly and disabled people will die alone?

  • @secretsantaone Yes, but only because they do not see other equally ugly people as possible spouses

  • This guy is brilliant but he should really stick to physics. =/

  • "Pick up somebody rapidly"

    That's some nice street talk you got there, Dr. Kaku

  • People are getting healthier? Yeah right. Take a look at the fatties in America, France, and a few other countries.

  • Why am I attracted to girls with glasses with small lips, small breasts, small bottom, small hips, and everything that shouts unhealthy?

  • @WebVManReturns You're still using markers, but now it's cultural markers as opposed to biological ones; that's where Anthropology comes into play. Glasses have become a symbol of intellect. Small lips, breasts, rumps, hips, etcettera, are markers decreased sexuality and monogamy, a bioloically and culturally preferred trait in humans. This is part of the reason you might find "Hot", "Pretty", and "Cute" girls all differentially but equally attractive.

  • @WebVManReturns because you weren't hugged as a child

  • @WebVManReturns It is genetic and cultural to have preference for certain women. Men don't all have the same preference. Otherwise most women would have those features.

  • @WebVManReturns People go way to deep, you're just a pedo

  • So why are some people quite healthy yet so damn ugly

  • @mtorres004 and vice versa

  • I'm incredibly healthy and very fit, but I still look like shit. Evolution has failed me!

  • What they mean by immune system is, people don't really like others with allergies and people that are sick all the time.

  • hahaahahahaahahahahahahaha.... 

  • So in the future everyone's going to hotter?

  • I love this man, He is my Idol. 

  • Ima gonna check if I have a large neck and a strong jaw.

  • Didn't he say on another video that humans stopped evolving? WHAT THE FUCK?

  • I am attracted to girls with glasses, but glasses are there because her eyes are sick!

  • Plastic surgery, making people choose an unhealthy mate since the 20th century.

  • HOLY CRAP SOMEONE USED THE CONCEPT OF EVOLUTION CORRECTLY!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!! <3 Michio Kaku

  • And cigarettes lower the tone of voice.

    How has that impacted human mating patterns? I know some guys who started smoking just because they perceived their voices as too high. What possible consequences in genetics could there be from this "cheating"?

  • LMFAO he completely describes the way i look XD

  • Men generally prefer larger breasts and hips because it shows who will have easier time giving birth to a child and then brest feeding it.

    Women prefer men in good phisical shape bacause they are viewed as better able to provide and protect.

    We might have better medicine and less dangers, but we still use thouse old markers to find a suitable mate.

    Also, kissing is a genetic test, we can taste weather or not a mate is compatable while kissing.

  • @ArmadaVolya

    So how come lots of good looking women are married to fat who are both poor and rich?

  • @Xzibillionaire Because even nature makes mistakes. But ask a few women what body types they like and I don't think any of them will tell you that they prefer fat to all other. These days there aren't enough men who are in good shape and have good personalities, so when given a choice between fat but reliable and muscular but unreliable, many would prefer reliable for the very reason of security.

  • @ArmadaVolya To be honest, this age is a spectrum of uncertain channels. There's some who love big men, some who love stereotypical muscle men, and some who love slender men. The slender, in my experience, have to be cute OR any look and just be funny. Big have to be protective or funny, or both. It ranges from either a big city from small towns on what is the ideal formula. Small towns tend to go fat, cities go muscles (think mainstream), and majority go average/skinny. And this is just average

  • @enlighteneveryone Slender body types do not necesarily mean weakness. Huge muscles can actually lead to slower movements. So in a fight someone with huge muscles can loose to someone with more speed. Also what we now see as muscular is not necessarilly strong. Men these days work out their upper body and neglect lower, hence they are not really strong. Women regester all these things without ever realizing it. And as I said before, personality counts as well.

  • @ArmadaVolya Really doesn't matter in a fight perspective. Talking about a woman's generalized (not actual single person's) natural decision. Ancestrally and subconsciously. Of course: A lot of women will tend to turn to that final conclusion by the time they're 25 (in general. So they're still young to reach your conclusion of: "a man than no man"). But yep, it'll take the skinny guy a personality to be the attention getter to get more options of women.Less necessities for big guys

  • @enlighteneveryone Oh and also, mane women these doys go for what is available. Many women think it's better to have some man then none

  • @ArmadaVolya yeah, larg breasts.

  • dont forget the phychological aspect very true wht he said but dont forget bout the brain :3

  • I swear this guys knows about....fuckin everything!

  • I have a short answer as to why we are attracted to certain people, pheromones XD!

  • Don't forget the estrogen bags on her chest.

  • I chose my girlfriend because i adored her strong immune system guys lol

  • @albokid52 ur not fooling anyone, u dont have a girlfriend

  • @albokid52 Is that what they call boobs nowadays? Man I'm behind...

  • @albokid52 I sneeze on all prospective mates and then see how long it takes for them to shake off the resulting cold virus lol.

  • @albokid52 Way to choose.

  • @albokid52 brains, and good looks :D

  • Except for the fact that the ugly people are still having sex with each other.

  • @JessAtlas Well, beggars can't be choosers. ;-p

  • what society is lacking is the process of natural selection.... which has, in time, turned into a mere hierarchy.... in which all levels of people survive.... morally, we call it humane.... but from an evolutionary point of view, it's wrong and useless..... such is the burden of a higher intellect

  • @DarkLionInteractive A even higher level of intellect will show that being humane is actually the best course of action. It makes sense to help others, especially from a evolutionary view.

  • Even if I'm a heterosexual man I want a baby with him

  • Yet the basic level of attraction is lost to emotion, the higher-level layer. My gf is shory, half dead hair...bad genetics - size, height, vision, teeth, and an std from an unknown source, and a skin tone which is almost yellowish, yet i'm emotionally bound to her, which seems to defeat the basic evolution attraction rules for me at least.

  • @ShadowRayzzz wtf..

  • @ShadowRayzzz Evolution also requires diversity, which means there will always be exceptions. I would go further and say there isn't any conceivable idea that every person on the planet will agree with. With 7 billion of us, there is a huge amount of diversity.

  • @ShadowRayzzz

    Your emotional attraction to your gf'd personality is also evolutionary. We are attracted to smart, clever people. They have consistently helped our species survive and advance, so we have evolved to be attracted to them. We are attracted to compassionate, caring people. They consistently help the the injured and people in need in our species. The list goes on.

    Everything you like in your gf, you like because of a primal brain. We are all bound to it.

  • How the fuck did I get here from watching dominoes?!

  • He's such a romantic

  • Raiden has spoken.

  • I'm healthy, fit and have a great immune system, all without a thick neck or huge jaws.

  • I gave her a lecture on physics... bitches love physics

  • @kerimil all bitches love physics

  • @kerimil Ok, Ed.

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  • @kerimil lmao I just sent her a smiley face.

  • 1:20 "Large eyes" *points to eyebrows*

  • @SilkyScreen Well, maybe he was stating that if he had large eyes, the top would be where his eyebrows are :)

  • How would he explain homosexuality?

  • @smashbro815 No clue, I would think it would be the same way but with the same sex?

  • @RIGUY75 This kinda goes a long with what I said to Alexagius. If we are supposed to be genetically programmed to be attracted to certain features of the opposite sex, why does homosexuality exist if a plausible reason behind it is being born with it?

    So again, it makes me ask: Could it be some sort of evolutionary response to overpopulation? Or is it since we don't have to subconsciously worry about reproducing, we can do whatever we want?

  • @smashbro815 One of the theories is that there are many similarities between males and females for instance, males also have nipples. Adolescence is a series of complex physiological and psychological changes that have many similarities between the sexes and sexual desire triggers have many common elements between the sexes. One theory is that homosexuality is a slight "miss wiring" of the sexual drive triggers developed during adolescence. It's just a mistake.

  • @smashbro815 It is not an evolutionary response to overpopulation as much as it is just a mistake that is repeated many times. Since sexual attraction to the opposite sex works over 90% of the time, that is more than enough to keep the current method of sexual attraction going.  Nature just accepts the less than 10% error rate as an acceptable byproduct.

  • @smashbro815 well that doesn't really matter you can have children in same sex so has no bearing on evolution

  • @TheAlexagius You can have children in same sex couples, but in most cases they will be adopted children, so I don't understand how what you say is supposed to give an answer.

    What I wonder is if, in most cases, we are attracted to certain features of the opposite sex to evolve and be more healthy, what is a plausible reason behind the attractiveness of homosexuality? Could it be some sort of evolutionary response to overpopulation? I don't know, but it's fun to think about.

  • @smashbro815 yes but the 2 partners cannot mate that adoped child is someone leses not your own aka not related geneticly to you

  • @smashbro815 there is the younger sibling theory.......if a woman has many males or females they are more likely to be gay to help look after the children already born to their daughters/brothers

  • @Apemanwithcalculator Maybe, but I've never heard of the younger sibling theory before, so I wouldn't know anything about it.

  • The only problem is evolutionary psychology is a bunch of crap, at least some of it. The idea that things we do today are caused by something that happened to us when we were apes. Just a load really.

    The only problem? This guy could change my mind so easily. Too easily really, I've built up alot of respect for him.

  • @Yukondano2 Millions of years of evolution vs. a few thousand years of civilization. It's just biology. We can think we are totally in control of what we do, but we really aren't.

  • Power to the G33KS. 

  • i dont know why, but it feels like this guy will be a meme some day

  • i dont know why, but it feels like this guy will be a meme in the future

  • @TheSamara89kitten thats right. Geeks have to survive too and get their own kids so their stradegy is i intelligence

  • @Hassaan1048 umm.. To get offspings meybe?

  • i don't like gym going bitches, i prefer lazy bitches who drink and smoke.

  • If we are just attracted to health then why most of us are attracted to opposite sexes? A person with the same gender can also have a good health.

  • @Hassaan1048 Because we are animals and cannot reproduce with members of the same sex. So, in evolutionary terms, someone of the same sex isn't a "mate". Socially, yes, they are a mate. But all animals have some sort of carnal programming to reproduce, and humans can't do that with the same gender.

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  • @TheSamara89kitten so what you are saying is that you choose materialism over love and physical attraction? that's a very fiendish way to portray yourself,,, and lets be honest,,, whats really attractive about that? that's just ugly.lol

  • My roomate was trying to match me with one of his female friend living way to far fur us to ever meet, the whole thing was just for fun. First she asked to see pictures of me. (Markers) I passed the test. Then she asked what kind of job I was doing (Status) I passed the test. Then she asked if I had a bad back (because of my job)...and I do have a bad back(Health). Her replied was "I find people with sore back sooo annoying, no, he is not a match for me!".

  • @pkendall19 you two are funny, keep going :) i hope you both know that at this point, it doesn't matter who's right, you both sound like idiots. calm down a little bit. I'm sure you're both very nice people in real life.

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  • the most striking thing that leads me to understand this is a disorder was this.. the teacher asked the gay students in the room if he had a magic wand, that could turn them straight, would they let him do it? almost all of them had to think, had no anser, and you could see the pain on the faces. imagine that.. i was totaly shocked, i thought they would laugh and say hell no. but seeing that changed my oppinion on them. i felt sorry for them. what do u think "disorder" means? its not an insult.

  • @pkendall19 That kind of reaction comes from years of repression, being told they're wrong by family and peers, insults, assaults, etc... There are a number of blacks who would respond like that to being asked if they would want to be made white. That's a common reaction to minority status.

  • @ChupiTheTerrible well can you really blame a black for wanting to be a white? lol thats like asking if you want to be a bum or a king. and second people can spit facts as much as they want. but that dosnt make them true. studies and polls can find hugely different results since its imposible to get a true sample of all the population. people like you who keep sqauwking poll results are no different in brain power than glen beck. this is a commen sense issue. you are foolish

  • @pkendall19 Can you blame gays for wanting the same thing? And it mirrors in human census. But that's not the only place it happens, listen to what we've been saying. We've observed it in over a thousand species all across the board, and carefully studied it in nearly 500. Every single time, same results. Rising population density, spiking percentage of the population is gay and bisexual. This isn't about polls it's about very well understood biological facts and humans just being mere animals.