Men corner the market on what evolutionary biologists call mate-choice failure, with documented cases involving everything from lampposts to trees to vacuum cleaners. We all make mistakes, I guess – but men more often than women.

— Steve Stewart-Williams A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women (2026)

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