Positive Assortative Mating or "As good as you can get"
Female (and likely male) mate selection seems to boil down to two viable theories, both of which are based on the notion that we generally seem to select mates that are similar to us. The question is whether this is positive assortative mating OR that we find the Denzels of the world most attractive, and shoot for a mate that is most similar to this evolutionary ideal.
However, females furthest away from an evolutionary ideal are less likely to get highly attactive men, and thus the "best" (evolutionarily) they can attract are those whose attractiveness level is simliar to their own. This would then create the illusion that females are selecting mates with similar genotypes. Which is it? Does the same process hold for males?