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Dance Dance Revolution: What are we fighting for?

December 23rd, 2005

Comrades! Join in the glorious revolution! You have nothing to lose but excess weight and perhaps your “single” status.

Games like DDR and StepMania show great promise in helping promote fitness, but perhaps there’s another benefit, as well.

According to anthropology researchers at Rutgers University, new study results show that dancing ability in humans has been shown to be a determining factor in mate quality.

From the press release:

“At least since Darwin, scientists have suspected that dance so often plays a role in courtship because dance quality tracks with mate quality,” said Lee Cronk, associate professor of anthropology. “But this has been hard to study because of the difficulty of isolating dance movements from variables, such as attractiveness, clothing and body features. By using motion-capture technology commonly employed in medical and sports science to isolate dance movements, we can confidently peg dancing ability to desirability.”

“In species where fathers invest less than mothers in their offspring, females tend to be more selective in mate choice and males therefore invest more in courtship display,” [postdoctoral research fellow William] Brown said. “Our results with human subjects correlate with that expectation. More symmetrical men put on a better show, and women notice.”

Read the article:
Rutgers Researchers Scientifically Link Dancing Ability to Mate Quality

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