I guess nerd dating is all the rage these days if the tabloids are to be believed. From golf nerd Tiger Woods to political nerd Peter Orszag, beautiful women are lining up to get in on the nerdly action.

Many are aghast at this turn of events, but scientists would tell us that this is par for the evolutionary course. Par for the course not so much in the golf kind of way but in the sense that women have to choose a man that will stay with them.

Let me explain.

Evolutionary psychologists would suggest that the fundamental choice for a man is how reproductively fecund is the women in front of him. That is to say, the male brain calculates how many ova does an attractive lady have yet to give? The female brain for its part has other worries, chief of which is whether or not the man in front of her will stay after he impregnates her.

Nerds have been a safe bet over the centuries, until now.

From Tiger Words, whose nickname at Stanford was Urkel to  political nerd Peter Orszag, women are being cheated on like never before. No longer can women feel secure with that polite guy whose nose is buried in a math book.

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