We should derive pleasure from activities promoting health, resource acquisition, desirable mates and fecund children.

He would have thought she was a highly desirable mate.

Sexual imprinting is the process by which a young animal learns the characteristics of a desirable mate.

Aren't we told that people perceived as being physically attractive earn more money, win more desirable mates and are better liked?

She had been totally different from what they would have accepted as a desirable mate.

Finally, mating must be totally random, with all males (or females in some cases) being equally desirable mates.

Great importance was placed on the women's ability to choose desirable mates and have many desirable children.

They fight their way to the top of the dominance hierarchy, and are first to get the food - and to snag a desirable mate.

Certainly writers often seem to be preening when they write, with an eye toward attracting a desirable mate.

So for several dozen centuries, the most desirable mates have been the ones who look like a laser show.