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Furthermore, women need to realize that, because selection favored males who had many mates, men tend to read signals of acceptance into a woman's actions even when no such signals are intended.
Scalia's "plain language" approach has certainly become more popular among his bench mates.
So females also compete for mates, though they look for the ones most willing and able to invest, not the ones most willing to copulate (those are never in short supply).
The computer's version of this is a switching between two stable states (unstable mates), but of course any shuttling begets an element of instability, wobble, neitherone-thing-nor-the-other.
One is that potential mates can be sure you're a human and, hence, biologically worth mating with.