The ability or often, promptitude of males and females to flirt and be flirted- a set of behaviors and mutually understood signals deeply and universally embedded in our psyche during a long, transcendent history and beguiling sophistication-has been long trivialized if not demonized. It's only in the latest decades, especially since the 1970s (see below) that flirting behaviors and attitudes have began to be analyzed to clues concerning the biological and psychological wisdom they encode.
Evolutionists have it that human beings flirt to propagate their genes. According to them, men are inclined to flirt with young and beautiful women as beauty and youth are, inter alia, signs of good health and fertility. On the same ground, women will favor stronger and muscular men with dominant demeanors, who will not only provide them with healthy babies, but also, will stay with them and invest their resources in them and their offspring.
However, human psychology is much......
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