LOOK at your partner. Look again! Why on earth did you choose that particular one for marriage or intimacy? Was it by chance, mathematical calculation, scientific qualification or divine intervention?

No answer!
OK, this is easier: Look at your friendâ€™s partner. Or imagine the most beautiful woman you have ever met. How could she have ended up with a guy like him? And why are handsome men picking women you can easily forget? And why is Olara Otunnu still unmarried?

Okay, letâ€™s not go too far, this is Ramadhan. And in true Ramadhan sincerity, it is difficult to find answers for such questions.

But scientists didnâ€™t think so. They sat down one day and spent lots of calories figuring out how we pick mates. They measured every shape and angle of the human face, studied the symmetry of dancers, crafted formulas from the measurements of magazine models, and had both men and women rank attractiveness based on smelling armpits.

When they were preparing to come out with a unified position, Madonna, 50, announced her engagement to her toy boy Jesus Luz, 22; MP Godi remarried and porn star Sasha decided to marry Ian Cinnamon, the photographer who used to take her live sex pictures.

After all this and more, they resolved that the rules of attraction for the human species cannot be clearly understood. Today, 2,009 years after Christ walked this earth, factors governing true love are even more mysterious than the army business enterprise, NEC.

But before that discouraging conclusion, there were many interesting discoveries. In fact, these discoveries can be mistaken for scientific rules for the game of love. Some are direct and physical like femininity/masculinity, figure or intellect/humour. Others work at the subconscious level, but closely related to evolutionary reasons that are rooted in factors that mapped your course before you were born.

In the coming Saturdays, we are going to explore these factors that seem to govern attraction and pairing. Today is the first step into explaining why you tend to attract the wrong mates, back the wrong horses and why Single has been associated with you for so long.

First and foremost, we look at the role of symmetry.

According to evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico, symmetry is the way we are shaped. â€œThe human body develops by neatly splitting cells,â€ he explains. â€œIf every division were to go perfectly, the result would be a baby whose left and right sides are mirror images. But nature doesnâ€™t work that way. Genetic mutations and environmental pressures skew symmetry and the results are a range of deviations from the ideal.â€

The closer to perfect symmetry, the better your survival chance both now and in your offspring, says Thornhill, who has been studying symmetry for 15 years. He discovered that men with higher degrees of symmetry enjoy more sexual partners than men of lower symmetry. Women fall for a male they deem to have better symmetry because they see in him a perfect offspring.

That marks the first of the many factors of attraction. Next week, we shall look at body parts which may mean that those below 18 and those who may be fasting should take a holiday. It will be awesome.

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