A man who is already taken signals higher mate value than an unchosen man with identical traits, because female choice functions as a quality certification. Another woman's 'Detective Agency' has already vetted him, and that social proof is the signal — not his raw characteristics. This makes the maxim 'all the best men are taken' doubly true: definitionally and as signaling.
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