Steve Stewart-Williams

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

I'm not really persuaded by the adaptive rationale for why it was switched and also why it was switched so quickly.

And you just get a little bit hungry and suddenly your preferences switch and then you eat some food and then they suddenly switch back.

That's what they prefer.

3 a.m.

Yeah, that's what they're thinking.

It could just be a status thing, right?

I wonder if it's that certain body types get linked with status in different cultures.

And in cultures where there's not a lot of abundance, to be able to get bigger indicates that you have good access to resources.

It becomes associated with status, and it's the reverse in more abundant societies.

Don't know the exact numbers, but I do know that in a lot of cities it's reversed and that...

Yeah, exactly.

It doesn't drop away though.

It doesn't drop away.

And I think they used to predict that it would, that it's just there because women are poor.

Yeah, but they don't necessarily... The fact that they, on average, going with somebody who's earning somewhat less than them isn't necessarily because that's what they prefer.

It's what's available.

At those kind of echelons, there's just not much available at all.

Tall girl problem.

Tall girl problem, exactly.

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