ROISSY RECENTLY drew up a list of female skills for attracting males, and although it is clearly weighted toward succeeding in short-term relationships, the rank order seems about right for getting married too. One quick way to see what has mattered to men is to look for sexually dimorphic traits. As Darwin noted, such traits can have the flavor of “armaments,” used to shove same-sex rivals out of the mating competition (such as deer antlers), or “ornaments” which attract mates (such as the peacock’s tail), or both. I’ll review some evidence that emotional vulnerability has been sexually selected in human females due . . . → Read More: Emotional Fragility: A Sexually Selected Trait?