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Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice

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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Apostolou, Menelaos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Evolutionary Biology
Sex (psychology)
Social Groups
Psychobiology
Sociology
Evolution (biology)
Physical-biological Anthropology
Human Behavior
Psychology Of Gender And Sexuality
Physical Anthropology
Behavioral Neuroscience
Sociology Of Family, Youth And Aging
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Sexual Selection Forces
  • Chapter 2: Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating
  • Chapter 3: The Model of Parental Choice
  • Chapter 4: Sexual Selection under Parental Choice in Hunting and Gathering Societies
  • Chapter 5: Sexual Selection under Parental Choice in Agropastoral Societies
  • Chapter 6: Sexual Selection under Parental Choice in Post-Industrial Societies
  • Chapter 7: Sexual Selection under Parental Choice Across Societies and Across Time
  • Chapter 8: Variation in the Strength of Parental Choice within and Between Societies of the Same Subsistence Type
  • Chapter 9: In-law Preferences: What Parents Want in a Prospective Daughter- And Son-in-Law
  • Chapter 10: Parental Choice and Its Impact on Adaptations Involved in Mating
  • Chapter 11: Environmental Mismatches and Mating Effectiveness

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