Multiple mating strategies

Women’s Mating Strategies

What does a woman want? The traditional evolutionist’s answer to Freud’s famous query is that a woman’s extensive investment in each child implies that she can maximize her fitness by restricting her sexual activity to one or at most a few high-quality males. Because acquiring resources for her offspring is of paramount importance, a woman will try to attract wealthy, high-status men who are wi...

Strategies of Human Mating

Modern humans have inherited the mating strategies that led to the success of their ancestors. These strategies include long-term mating, short-term mating, extra-pair mating, mate poaching, and mate guarding. This article presents empirical evidence supporting evolution-based hypotheses about the complexities of these mating strategies. Since men and women historically confronted different ada...

Mating Systems and Strategies

applicability. There is not enough discussion about possible empirical approaches to the niche concept (Chapter 4). Although this is probably due to niche hypotheses being very difficult to test empirically, it will be necessary if their framework is to be adopted at all. The authors boldly claim that the niche framework is able to provide explanatory hypotheses about macroecological and macro-...

Mating Strategies of Tropical Insects

Sexual Conflict in Mating Strategies

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