Journal article
The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.23(4), pp.573-587
08/2000
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113791
PMID: 11301543
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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- Title
- The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism
- Creators
- Steven W Gangestad - Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 sgangest@unm.eduJeffry A Simpson - Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 jas@psyc.tamu.edu
- Publication Details
- The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.23(4), pp.573-587
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 15
- Identifiers
- 99900548264301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article