The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism
Abstract
During human evolutionary history, there were "trade-offs" between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signaling the circumstances. Many short-term matings might be successful for some men; others might try to find and keep a single mate, investing their effort in rearing her offspring. Recent evidence suggests that men with features signaling genetic benefits to offspring should be preferred by women as short-term mates, but there are trade-offs between a mate's genetic fitness and his willingness to help in child-rearing. It is these circumstances and the cues that signal them that underlie the variation in short- and long-term mating strategies between and within the sexes.
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Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson (2000). The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x0000337x
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title = {The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism},
author = {Gangestad, Steven W. and Simpson, Jeffry A.},
year = {2000},
journal = {Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
doi = {10.1017/s0140525x0000337x}
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