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Cookie akzeptierenMenelaos Apostolou
Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens
- Springer International Publishing
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 212 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319865287
The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species. Almost all scholarly effort focuses on sexual selection in non-human species and extrapolates the findings to the human one. However, human mating has a unique pattern not found in any other species, namely parental influence over mate choice. Across preindustrial societies, the typical pattern of long- term mating is arranged marriage, where parents choose spouses for their children. By doing so, parents effectively become a sexual selection force. Traits that enhance an individual¿s chance to be selected as a son- or a daughter-in-law confer important reproductive advantages to those who are endowed
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