The phrase "attractive mate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing relationships, biology, or social dynamics, often referring to a partner or potential partner who is appealing in some way.
Example: "In the animal kingdom, many species display vibrant colors and elaborate behaviors to attract a mate."
Alternatives: "appealing partner" or "desirable companion".
NOR WOULD YOU SAY that of the guy on the site of MeUndies, an average, almost beefy man seen in a video flossing his teeth while debating with his much more attractive mate about sleeping with her girlfriends, if she were to die.
"A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate," Professor Crabtree says.
As Crabtree explains in the journal: "A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate.
Noam Sobel, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, used a stark hypothetical to drive home the ways in which smell can shape behavior: "If I offer you a beautiful mate, of the gender of your choice, who smells of sewage, versus a less attractive mate who smells of sweet spice, with whom would you mate?" Olfaction experts each have their pet theories as to why our scent lexicon is so lacking.
Ever since announcing a deal with Verizon Communications on Valentine's day, Capellas has stayed true, stating repeatedly that even though Qwest was offering more money, Verizon was a more attractive mate.
Helped by women's higher education levels and entry into the workforce and 21st-century standards of what makes an attractive mate, they are the new face of marriage, on course to change the institution itself.
But when the researchers combined all the measures of fitness such as generation time, survival, and attractiveness or fertility of offspring, they found that attractive mates allowed females to grow their clan 25% faster than homely mates did.
From an evolutionary perspective, sexual arousal may function, in part, to motivate the pursuit of attractive mating opportunities.
And, yes, men who have symmetrical bodies not only obtain more attractive mates, they tend to invest less effort in their relationships.
We argue that it is unlikely that a "downplaying of alternatives" psychology evolved, whereby mated individuals rate opposite-sex targets as less attractive than do unmated individuals, but instead that men and women have a relationship-seeking psychology, motivating them to pursue attractive mating opportunities.
Female túngara frogs can be tricked into choosing less attractive mates.
