>the fact is that human woman tend not to marry below themselves in terms of some combination of status markers I think this point to what people have an issue

>the fact is that human woman tend not to marry below themselves in terms of some combination of status markers I think this point to what people have an issue with. In many western cultures people are told marriage/mating is based on love, yet more than a trivial amount of what people see is largely based on status. They may not be mutually exclusive, but not weighted in the proportion that is commonly spoken about