Eli5: how are organisms instinctually attracted to features that improve survival?

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For example, in humans it’s theorized that women with wider hips have a better chance of a successful birth, therefore men are more attracted to wide hips. Like how can my brain know that wide hips is a good genetic trait and pass this attraction to wide hips to my offspring?

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Evolution doesn’t work on knowledge. Males that just happened to randomly have an attraction towards women with wide hips had more descendants. Way back when this was only starting to occur, attraction to wide hips was probably just like any other random paraphilia or kink people had and still have.

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