Study: Men prefer beauties but are still 'less choosy' than women

Researchers monitored the behavior and choices of 26 men and 20 women in Munich (?) and found that men often didn't choose women who fit their pre-stated criteria, instead going for the best-looking women.

Men tended to select nearly every woman above a certain minimum attractiveness threshold, Todd said.

Women's actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences, but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found... "Women made offers to men who had overall qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness... [but] they didn't go lower. They knew what they could get and aimed for that level."

So reminiscent of high school, where status is linked mainly to whether an attractive person will date you.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, researchers discovered that even the worst pickup lines have an evolutionary purpose.