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Published online 16 February 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000217-7
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Sugar Daddy simulations
Leonardo Di Caprio or Leonardo Da Vinci? New research suggests that females go for the more mature male only if he's a proven survivor -- or a meal ticket.
Evolutionary theory (plainly an activity performed by men of a Certain Age) suggests that sensible females with their eye on the future should choose to mate with old farts rather than young bucks. The reasoning is that the more mature male will -- by virtue of his age -- be a veteran of the University of Life, and have survived the diseases and other trials of youth.
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