Is Human Culture a Method of Sexual Selection?

"Human culture" is too broad here. Many aspects were to do with banding together and uniting against perceived or real external menaces, from weather and food shortages to predators and other human groupings. In that sense, it contributes to survival of the fittest, but not by sexual selection.

This sounds like another attempt to reduce things that won't go. I've seen various lists that psychologists produced of The Basic Human Impulses - food, shelter, reproduction and all - and they never really convince, so bringing human culture down to one driver is never going to fly.

However, my enthusiasm for and knowledge of cultural/artistic things plays a big part in my attempting to attract a mate. This is partly because I think this is a strong suit of mine, but the important thing is to find someone who at least understands a non-negotiable need for thousands of books and albums and stuff.

Does anyone think that my in-depth knowledge of superhero comic books is going to help me find a girlfriend? "Hey baby - who are your ten favourite super-villains?".

The question is, Martin, do YOU think it might help you find a girlfriend / partner / mate? And if so, why?

Whatever this theory is, it's complete horseshit. Proof? Well, I'm the most creative, intelligent, cultured person I know, and last night even my right hand fell asleep on me

Martin, do YOU think it might help you find a girlfriend / partner / mate? And if so, why?

My huge interest in cultural/artistic matters is likely to put off as many people as it attracts. Actually, I don;t mean to suggest equality of numbers there - I've no idea. Thing is, it seems likely to attract people with whom I can talk, and put off those with whom I can't connect. If I can find a woman who's hugely keen on the arts and wants an intelligent and culturally knowledgeable partner, I've not only found someone who might want me, I've found someone I might want. I'm not suggesting it improves my chances, it's just about compatibility, and I think it's circular in evolutionary terms, in that it is an arbitrary construct with no a priori necessary relevance to sexual suitability, but a merely conventional and contingent connection.

The above is, as I said earlier, about a very slight subsection of 'human culture' in a full sense.